Key techniques to know Flashcards
Types of sentences
Imperative
interogative
Declarative
Exclamative
Use of semi colon
To expand and emphasise
Allusion
Allude reference to a certain thing, or experience
First person
Type of person, first person more emotion
Third lacks bias more objective
Jargon
Type of word or terminology to a particular topic, eg sport.
Will show which type of audience
Juxtaposition
Putting contrasting ideas or visuals to show contrast to bring attention to something
Anaphora
Persuasive, beginning of a sentence is repeated
Noun phrase
Noun with description - tall old tree
Direct address
Persuasive ‘you’ personal pronoun
Prepositions
A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.
Some examples of prepositions are words like “in,” “at,” “on,” “of,” and “to.”
Abstract noun
Intangible ideas—things you can’t perceive with the five main senses. Words like love, time, beauty, and science are all abstract nouns because you can’t touch them or see them.
Concrete noun
A concrete noun identifies something material and non-abstract, such as a chair, a house, or an automobile.
Think about everything you can experience with your five senses: smell, touch, sight, hearing, or taste.
A strawberry milkshake that tastes sweet and feels cold is an example of a concrete noun.
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase.
Pronouns refer to either a noun that has already been mentioned or to a noun that does not need to be named specifically.
She likes apples
Conjunction
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause
(e.g. and, but, if ).
Auxiliary verb
Used with a main verb to help express the main verb’s tense, mood, or voice.
The main auxiliary verbs are to be, to have, and to do.
They appear in the following forms: To Be: am, is, are, was, were, being, been, will be.
Modal verb
These are verbs that indicate likelihood, ability, permission or obligation.
Words like: can/could, may/might, will/would, shall/should and must.
Determiners
Determiners are words such as the, my, this, some, twenty, each, any, which are used before nouns.
Determiners include the following common types: Articles: a, an, the.
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those. Possessives:my, your, his, her,
Proper noun
A proper noun is a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing.
Adverb examples
He swims well.
He ran quickly.
She spoke softly.
James coughed loudly to attract her attention.
He plays the flute beautifully. ( after the direct object)
He ate the chocolate cake greedily. ( after the direct object)
Adjectives examples
Charming.
Cruel.
Fantastic.
Gentle.
Huge.
Perfect.
Rough.
Sharp.
Lexical field
A lexical field denotes a segment of reality symbolised by a set of related words. The words in a semantic field share a common semantic property.
Accomodation
The way that individuals adjust their speech in accordance with whom they are addressing
Idiom
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
(e.g. over the moon, see the light ).
