Language And Structure Words

Question 1

Adjective

Answer 1

Words that describe nouns e.g. green,huge sparkily

Question 2

Verbs

Answer 2

Doing words, eg run

Question 3

Adverb

Answer 3

Words that describe verbs e.g. quickly, patiently

Question 4

Pronoun

Answer 4

Someone or something, the subject of the sentence Eg we, me, he,she,they,them

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

Comparison using like or as to create a vivid image e.g. she flew like a bird

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

Without using like or as e.g. a sea of troubles or drowning in debt

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

A type of imagery in which non-human objects animals or ideas are given human characteristics e.g. the leaves danced in the breeze

Question 8

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 8

The environment ( usually the weather) reflects the mood of the character or scene

Question 9

Onomatopoeia

Answer 9

The sounds of words to express or underline the meaning, sensory imaging e.g. crunch, pop, screech

Question 10

Assonance

Answer 10

The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words e.g. harsh bark, moonlit pool

Question 11

Rule of three

Answer 11

Repetition in a group of 3 to strengthen an idea or argument e.g. freedom, equality and justice

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

Over the top exaggeration for affect e.g. I have 10 tons of homework to do

Question 13

Temporal references

Answer 13

References to time how it affects the reader, comment on how time is used to speed up or slow down the pace of the text

Question 14

Foreshadowing

Answer 14

Hint at something that will happen later on have a greater significance

Question 15

Effect of repetion in writing

Answer 15

Repetitive features can highlight key meanings, indicators development or show a lack of change

Question 16

Simple sentence

Answer 16

A simple sentence consist of one clause that has a subject and a verb

Question 17

Counpound sentence

Answer 17

A compound sentence has at least two major independent clauses they can be joined together by a comma, semicolon, or a coordinating conjunction such as and, or ,and but

Question 18

Complex sentence

Answer 18

It communicates more than one idea however the ideas are not equal e.g. you can’t persuade me to go into town, no matter how hard you try, you can see that this sentence if it was split up with a full stop Where the comma is wouldn’t make sense

Question 19

Synaesthesia

Answer 19

A technique in which one sense used to represent another, or where a sense is used to add meaning to an unrelated experience e.g. “feeling blue” uses colour and a sense of sight to describe emotion

Question 20

Synecdoche

Answer 20

This means using part of something to represent the whole e.g. referring to a “set of wheels” to mean a who,e car or referring to “boots on the ground” to refer to soldiers in the army

Question 21

Parenthesis

Answer 21

Extra information is included in the middle sentence, contained within dashes, brackets or commas.

Question 22

Ellipsis

Answer 22

Were three dots… Are used to indicate something more could be added