GCSE English: Flashcards
What is an Adjective?
Describes a noun.
What is an Adverb?
Describes a verb or adjective.
What is an Alliteration?
Repetition of the start of words.
What is an Anaphora?
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning.
What is an Antonym?
Opposite in meaning to another word.
What is an Assonance?
Repetition of the vowel sound nearby words in a text.
What is a Caesura?
Pause within a line.
How does a Caesura get shown?
Through punctuation.
What is a Colloquial language?
Social accent.
What is a Conjunction?
Connects clauses.
What is an example of Conjunction?
And.
What is a Consonance?
Repetition of similar constant sounds in nearby words.
What is an example of Consonance?
Sammy was clammy.
What is a Couplet?
Two successive lines that often rhyme together.
What is a Determiner?
Determines what is being spoken about.
What is an example of Determiner?
The door.
What is Emotive language?
Language associates with Emotion.
What is Empathy?
Understanding feelings based on experience.
What is Enjambment?
Lines that continue onto the next line or stanza.
Without punctuation or pause.
What is form?
Structure or pattern.
What is a Full Rhyme?
Sound is identical in words.
What is an example of Full Rhyme?
Fat cat.
What is Holistic?
Bigger picture of a theme.
What is an iamb?
Unstressed syllable followed by stressed.
What is an Imagery?
Language used to create an image.
What is an example of iamb?
Delight.
What is Internal rhyme?
Rhyme within a line.
What is Irony?
Goes against the expectation.
What is Juxtaposition?
Two opposite ideas.
What is a Litotes?
Purposeful understandement.
What is an example of Litote?
Not half bad.
What is an Oxymoron?
Verb or noun described as the opposite.
What is an example of an Oxymoron?
Slowly running.
What is Pathetic Fallacy?
Weather reflecting the mood.
What is Personification?
Gives living qualities to inaminate things.
What is a Plosive?
Potent sound.
What is an example of Plosive?
Tomb.
What is a Pragmatic?
Practicle especially when making decisions.
What is an example of Pragmatic?
Who do you think you are?
What is a Preposition?
Describes the position of something.
What is an example of Preposition?
In.
What is a Pronoun?
Replaces a noun.
What is a Prosody?
Pattern of a particular rhythm.
What is a Quatrain?
Four-line stanza.
What is a Quintain?
Five-line stanza.
What is Sibilance?
Similar to alliteration but only dor ‘s’ or ‘sh’ sounds.
What is a Simile?
Compare something being similar using like or as.
What is a Stanza?
Poetic version of a paragraph.
What is a Superlative?
Highest degree or amount of something.
What is a Tercet?
Three-line stanza.
What is a Volta?
Drastic change in mood, tone or topic in a poem.
