Lang Terms And Tech Flashcards
Onomatopoeia
Words which represent the sound or action being described.
Verb
A word which is an action of a thing or person
Adjective
A word used to describe the characteristics or attributes of something
Adverbs
A word which describes the way the verb is excecuted
Noun
A item, thing or person
Pathetic fallacy
When weather is used to portray the emotion in the scene
Personification
When something which isn’t human is described with features usually associated with a human to bring it or its action life
Common noun
a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual.
Proper noun
a name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with an initial capital letter, e.g. Jane, London, and Oxfam.
Personal pronoun
each of the pronouns in English ( I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them ) comprising a set that shows contrasts of person, gender, number, and case.
Modal verb
an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility. English modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might.
Abstract noun
A word which is a feeling or something which isn’t physical or a actual object. Eg love.
Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
Juxtaposition
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. Eg “isn’t it “
Phrase
A phrase is a group or words that express a concept and is used as a unit within a sentence. Eight common types of phrases are: noun, verb, gerund, infinitive, appositive, participial, prepositional, and absolute.
Clause
A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb.
Collective noun
a count noun that denotes a group of individuals (e.g. assembly, family, crew ).
Concrete noun
Concrete nouns are things that you can experience through your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. On the other hand, abstract nouns refer to ideas and concepts.
Alliterarion
The first letter of a word is repeated in the words that follow; the cold, crisp, crust of clean, clear ice.
Colliquial
Language that is used in speech with an informal meaning; ‘chill’, ‘out of this world’, ‘take a rain check’.
Dialect
The version of language spoken by particular people in a particular area such as Scots.
Dissonance
A discordant combination of sounds; clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves against the quay.
Hyperbole
Exaggerating something for literary purposes which is not meant to be taken literally; we gorged on the banquet of beans on toast.
Imagery
Similes, metaphors and personification; they all compare something ‘real’ with something ‘imagined’.
Pathos
Language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow.
Assonance
The same vowel around is repeated but the consonants are different; he passed her a sharp, dark glance, shot a cool, foolish look across the room.
Dialogue
Conversation between two people; sometimes an imagined conversation between the narrator and the reader.
Irony
The humorous or sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean.
Dramatic irony
theatre) the irony occurring when the implications of a situation, speech, etc, are understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
Pace
The speed at which something happens in a text
Empathize
To understand and share someone else feelings.
Third person perspective
Point of view using he, she or they
First person perspective
You feel more involved in text and empathize with the character
Motif
A pattern or recurring work in an artistic idea
Symbolism
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
Connotations
The underlying ideas and feelings suggested by a word
Evaluation
A judgement about the value of something
Narrator
The person who tells the story
Slang
Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group.
Jargon
Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
Descriptive writing
The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader’s mind. Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all of your five senses.
Narrative writitng
A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both.
