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What is a simple sentence?

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A main/ independent clause.

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What is a compound sentence?

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A sentence that makes sense on its own.

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What is a complex sentence?

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A sentence that doesn’t make sense on its own.

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4
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What does futility mean?

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Pointlessness.

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What does Sibilance mean?

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Repeated ‘s’ sound.

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What is a assonance?

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Repeated vowel sounds e.g. slowly moaning.

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What is the effect of sibilance?

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Soothing, calming effect
Sinister foreboding –> snake
Anger, seething

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What does Visceral mean?

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Based on deep feeling and emotional reactions.

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9
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What does ‘Wetter’ stand for?

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Writing
Imbedded Evidence
Technique
Terminology
Effect
Response
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10
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What is an imperative verb?

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command your audience

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11
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What is emotive language?

A

Emotional language

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What is chiaroscuro?

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Artists use of light and dark

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Litotes meaning

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under exaggerating an effect

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14
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What does Philanthropy?

A

love of people/ community

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Misanthropy meaning

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hates people/ society

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Benefactor meaning

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someone who gives lots of money/ help to someone

17
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Zoomorphism meaning

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when humans are given animal characteristics

18
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Bildungsroman meaning

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It is a novel when the main character changes and evolves throughout the novel.

19
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First-person narrator

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their perspective of the story.

20
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Name a disadvantage and an advantage to first-person narrative.

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only their opinion

more information on the main character and what they think.

21
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What is a precocious child?

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A stuck up child who thinks a lot of themselves.

22
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What is pathetic Fallacy?

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Where the writer portrays nature as having human emotions.

23
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What is an allegory?

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A type of story with a moral

24
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When writing a complaint letter, what do you need to explain?

A

What the problem is
Why it is a problem
What you want the recipient to do about it

25
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What is an extended metaphor?

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It is a technique that explains a complex idea in simple terms to evoke emotions and imagery when writing about something abstract.