Language features Flashcards
What is a noun?
A noun is a name of a place, thing, or a person.
What are the 8 part of speech?
- Noun
- Verb
- Interjection
- Preposition
- Adjective
- Article
- conjunction
- Adverb
What is a proper noun?
A proper noun is a name of a SPECIFIC person, place or thing. The first letter is usually capitalised.
What is a common noun?
A common noun is a name of a non-specific person, place or thing and is not capitalised.
What is a verb?
Verb is an action or state of mind.
Is, am and are all verbs.
What is subject and object
Subject is what the verb is done by.
Object is what the verb is done to.
What is an adjective?
An adjective describes a noun
What is modal verbs?
Expresses necessity and possibility.
Should, must, can
What is an imperative?
An imperative is a command
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is used in place of a noun.
What is superlative?
The adjective showing highest quality or degree.
- est
best, tallest, greatest…
What is comparative adjectives?
Adjective that compares two or more things.
- taller, greater, better (ER)
What is symbolism?
The use of symbols to represent something like an idea.
What is alliteration?
The same letter starting for 2 or more words that are close to each other.
What is a simile?
A simile compares two or more things using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’.
What is a metaphor?
A metaphor compares one thing to another directly.
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is hyperbole?
Hyperbole is exaggeration of something.
What is imagery?
Imagery is vivid description.
What is simple sentence?
Contains one clause with the subject and the verb.
What is connotation?
Connotation is the feeling implied by the word.
What is a compound sentence?
Contained two independent clauses joined by co-ordinating conjunction.
What is complex sentence?
Contains one independent and one dependent clause joined by sub-ordinating conjunction.
What is repetition?
Repeating a word or a phrase
What is triplets?
Three adjectives used to describe something.
What is juxtaposition?
Two things place close to each other to show the contrast.
What is anaphora?
The repetition of words or phrases at the begging of two or more sentence.
What is listing?
List of things.
List is compiled of group of nouns. What is the effect of grouping noun together?
syndetic listing- using conjunction between the noun.
Asyndetic listing- listing things without using conjunction.
(Pace of the text and the feeling evoked by readers)
Narrative voice?
first person narrative- I, me
second person narrative- you (targets the audience)
third person narrative- they, them (omniscent view)
What is direct speech?
The dialogue of character in quotation marks.
Tense
- Is it past tense
Is it present tense
Is it future tense
