key words

Question 1

common noun

Answer 1

word for a thing that is tangible, e.g. chair, penguin, man, arsonist, murderer, ghost, crumpet, trumpet.

Question 2

Abstract noun

Answer 2

naming word for an idea, concept, state of being or belief, e.g.
tidiness, sadness

Question 3

Proper noun

Answer 3

a naming word for a specific example of a common noun often names or specific people.

Question 4

Verb

Answer 4

a word that represents an action or process eg a doing word.

Question 5

active verb

Answer 5

a word that represents a physical action

Question 6

stative verb

Answer 6

a word that represents a process that is often only mental e.g think

Question 7

auxiliary verb

Answer 7

a verb that has to be used with another verb in order to create present participles or the future tense e.g “did you go?”

Question 8

modal verb

Answer 8

an auxiliary verb that express a degree of either possibility or necessity.

Question 9

adjective

Answer 9

a describing word

Question 10

superlative

Answer 10

an adjective that displays the most extreme value of its quality e.g biggest

Question 11

comparative

Answer 11

an adjective that relates one thing in some way to another and usually ends in “er”

Question 12

definite article

Answer 12

the

Question 13

indefinite article

Answer 13

a or an

Question 14

pronoun

Answer 14

a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence, eg him,her

Question 15

first person pronoun

Answer 15

i, and the first personal plural; we,our

Question 16

second person pronoun

Answer 16

you.

Question 17

third person pronoun

Answer 17

him,her,he,she, and the third person plural; them, those.

Question 18

possessive pronoun

Answer 18

my, mine, our, your, his

Question 19

demonstrative pronoun

Answer 19

this, that, those

Question 20

monosyllabic lexis

Answer 20

words of one syllable

Question 21

polysyllabic lexis

Answer 21

words of two or more syllable

Question 22

imperative sentence mood

Answer 22

when a sentence is issuing a command

Question 23

declarative sentence mood

Answer 23

when a sentence is making a statement

Question 24

interrogative sentence mood

Answer 24

when a sentence is asking a question

Question 25

exclamatory sentence mood

Answer 25

when a sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion, sense of alarm or overly strong emphasis

Question 26

register

Answer 26

the level of formality of a text

Question 27

tenor

Answer 27

the tone, or the relationship between author and reader and how it is created

Question 28

attitudes

Answer 28

the opinions expressed in the text

Question 29

content

Answer 29

what the text is about

Question 30

context

Answer 30

things outside the text which may shape its meaning eg who wrote it

Question 31

form

Answer 31

the structure and shape of a text

Question 32

themes

Answer 32

the recurring ideas and images in a text

Question 33

colloquialism

Answer 33

informal language usage eg fella, bum

Question 34

exclamation

Answer 34

a one word sentence with an exclamation mark at the end

Question 35

ellipsis

Answer 35

when parts of a written structure are missing in texts sometimes they are indicated by three full stops in a row

Question 36

syntax

Answer 36

the way words form sentences

Question 37

parenthesis

Answer 37

an aside within a text created by sectioning off extra information between brackets,dashes or between two commas

Question 38

rhetorical question

Answer 38

a question designed not to be answered

Question 39

hydrophobia

Answer 39

when a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer in a text

Question 40

hyperbole

Answer 40

deliberate over exaggeration of things for effect

Question 41

litotes

Answer 41

deliberate downplaying of things for effect

Question 42

parallelism

Answer 42

the creation of patterns in a text, through repetition of words or phases

Question 43

repetition

Answer 43

the repetition of words or phrases

Question 44

tricolon / tripling

Answer 44

grouping in threes, either through repetition or structure

Question 45

imagery

Answer 45

a descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture

Question 46

post modification

Answer 46

a descriptive technique where the descriptive words come after the thing they are describing

Question 47

metaphor

Answer 47

a comparison that states that something is like or as something else

Question 48

simile

Answer 48

a comparison that states that something is actually something else

Question 49

synecdoche

Answer 49

a metaphor that states that something is only a small constituent part of itself eg “hes behind bars” (prison)

Question 50

analogy

Answer 50

explaining something in terms of something else

Question 51

allusion

Answer 51

to refer to something indirectly or metaphorically

Question 52

pathetic fallacy

Answer 52

when the environment or weather mirrors emotions

Question 53

personification

Answer 53

a device in which non human is given personal and human qualities

Question 54

extended metaphor

Answer 54

when a metaphor continues throughout a text with recurring references to the compered item

Question 55

Homeric / epic simile

Answer 55

the Homeric part refers to homers odyssey to connote length and recurrence

Question 56

symbolism

Answer 56

using figurative and metaphoric language, items or incident in a way that means that certain things represent other things, e.g. a color could represent the sadness of a character

Question 57

lexis

Answer 57

another word for the word “word”

Question 58

field specific lexis

Answer 58

this language of a certain area eg field specific lexis for computing would be mouse.