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Personification

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Give an inanimate object a human feeling or characteristic

Eg: ‘The tree danced happily in the breeze’

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Alliteration

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A few words starting with the same letter

Eg: ‘Strange sound’

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Onomatopoeia

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The sound that an object makes

Eg: ‘growl’

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Simile

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A sentence using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Eg: ‘He sprinted like he has never done before’

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object to which it’s not literally applicable

Eg: ‘Your a diamond’

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Rhetorical question

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A question that you don’t get an answer to

Eg: ‘How many times do I need to tell you’

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Imagery

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When you can picture it in your mind

Eg: ‘he had a pale face with a dark grey beard’

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Sibilance

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Producing air from vocal tracts through the use of lips and tongue. Most of the time the ‘s’ sound is sibilant.

Eg: ‘The sausages were sizzling’

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Colloquial language

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Used in ordinary or familiar conversations. Not formal or litery.

Eg: ‘How you doing, you alright?’

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Eg: ‘we’ve been working for years’

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Noun

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A word that refers to a thing, person, animal, place etc.

Eg: ‘The man walked across the road’

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Verb

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A verb is a doing word

Eg: ‘He swam in the lake’

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Adjective

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A word that describes the object or how he is doing it

Eg: ‘The man slowly walked to work’

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Adverb

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A word that describes a verb

Eg: ‘He swam quickly across the lake’

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Repition

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This is a word that is repeated in a sentence

Eg: ‘let it snow, let it snow, let it snow’

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which apparently contradicting terms appear in conjunction

Eg: ‘deafening silence’

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Pronoun

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A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself.

Eg: ‘He was so tired so he went to bed’

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Abstract noun

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A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object

Eg: ‘I could see the anger in his face’

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Proper noun

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A specific name for a particular person, place or thing

Eg: Common noun ‘I ordered a new computer online
Proper noun ‘I ordered the laptop on Amazon

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Collective noun

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A word or phrase that refers to a group of people or thing as one intity

Eg: ‘11 football players’

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Assonance

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Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearly words, arising, particularly from the rhyming of 2 or more stressed vowels.

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Dialect

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A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group

Eg: ‘a northern American might say ‘hello’
Eg: ‘A Southern American might say, “howdy.”

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Dialogue

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A conversation between 2 or more people as a feature of a book, play or film

Eg: ‘Lisa’ said kyle ‘i need help taking out the trash’

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Dissonance

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Lack of harmony between people or things

Eg: A baby crying or a person screaming

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

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Irony

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The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Eg: A man stepping out into a hurricane and saying ‘what a nice day’

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Pathos

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Appeals to the emotions of audience and elicits feelings that already reside in them

Eg: ‘a teenager begging for brand name jeans’

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Rhyme

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Correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words

Eg: ‘Bell and ball’ ‘dump and damp’

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Caesura

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A pause near the middle of a line

Eg: ‘it is for you we speak, not ourselves’

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Symbolism

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Eg: ‘black is used to represent death or evil’

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Semantic field

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A group of words that belong together - like sheep in a field

Eg: ‘a baby in a cot’

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Preposition

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Preposition poem is a poem that begins each line with a proposition. Say propositions modified nouns usually to demonstrate relationship such as time and location.

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Article

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A word used to modify a noun which is a person, place or thing

‘The’

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Protagonist

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The main character of the play

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Climax

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The point in the play or scene where the drama reaches the greatest tension.

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Declarative

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A sentence in the form of a statement

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Exclamatory

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An exclamatory sentence expresses strong emotion, and it ends with an exclamation mark

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Interrogative

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An interrogative sentence is usually in the form of a question

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Imperative

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An imperative sentence usually contains a command

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