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Alliteration

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When the first letter/sound are put together

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Onomatopoeia

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When the word sounds like the noise it describes

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Metaphor

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When something is described as being something else

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Adjective

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A word that describes a noun

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Verb

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A doing word

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Adverb

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A word describing a verb

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Semantic field

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A group of words that are related in some way

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Modal verbs

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Should, could, might and may

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Determiner

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Modifying word referencing a noun, a boy, a girl, the boy, the girl

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Imperative verb

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An order or command

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Superlative

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Anything of the highest degree or quality, best, greatest, smallest

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Juxtaposition

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Two things being seen or placed together for contrasting effect.

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech where two contradictory terms appear together. Sinister fairy tale, seriously funny, living dead, act naturally.

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Imagery

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Similes, metaphors and personification; they all compare something “real” with something ‘imagined’

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Irony

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The humours or sarcastic use of words or ideas.

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Personification

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Giving an object or thing human qualities or emotions

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Interpret

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Explain the meaning of something in your own words, showing you understand

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Statistics

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Figures, such as 85% or 4000 children

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Vowels

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The letters a,e,i,o,u

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Third person

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From the point of view of someone. He, she or they

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Climax

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The most exciting point in a story

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Repetition

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Repeating something

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Abstract noun

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A word used to identify emotions, ideas and qualities.

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Flashback

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A section in a text that is set before the events of the main story

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Topic sentence

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The sentence that introduces or summarises the main idea of a paragraph

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Dialogue

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Conversations between two or more characters

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