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first person pronouns

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I, we, us

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adverb

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an adverb tells us when, where, how, in what manner, or to what extent an action is performed.

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proper noun

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the name of a person/ place

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concrete noun

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a physical object that can be experienced through the senses

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imagery

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language that helps you visualise something

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second person pronouns

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you, you’re

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third person pronouns

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he, she, they, them, those, it

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possessive pronouns

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his, hers, mine, ours, yours

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hyperbole

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exaggeration

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pathetic fallacy

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using the weather to reflect the mood

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colloquial language

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informal language

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anaphora

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starting a sentence in the same way

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superlative

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adjectives or adverbs expressing an extreme value (best, worst)

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declarative

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a statement

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exclamative

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a sentence with a !

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interrogative

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a sentence with a ?

17
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neologism

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new words

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juxtaposition

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when two things are put side by side in a text to help draw a comparison

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oxymoron

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when two words in a phrase contradict eachother

20
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asyndetic list

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omitting the conjunction ‘and’ for effect

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syndetic list

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using the word conjunction ‘and’ over and over again for effect

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inverted syntax

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when the ordering of words is rearranged to create an alternative weighting to a sentence

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litotes

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deliberate downplaying for effect

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definitive article

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the

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indefinite article

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a or an

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demonstrative pronoun

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this that those

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minor sentence

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one word sentence

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parenthesis

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an aside within a text created by sectioning off extra information between brackets, dashes or commas (parenthetic commar, dashes or brackets)