Language Term/Techniques Flashcards
Collective noun
A group of objects or things
A herd of sheep
Abstract noun
A noun that denotes an idea.
Happiness
Superlative
The highest quality of that word.
Fastest
Colloquial
Language used in familiar conversation. Non-formal.
Can’t.
Semantic field.
A group of words.
The writers semantic field…
Adjective
A word that describes a noun.
Determiner
A modifying word
Adverb.
A word that describes how a verb is performed.
He was running fast.
Subordinate clause.
A clause that is dependent of a main clause.
Prepositions. Where something is in relation to another.
Where something is in relation to another.
He was under the table.
Hyperbole
Exaggerated terms not meant to be taken seriously.
Lexis
A word
Protagonist.
The main character in a play or novel.
Modal verb.
A verb that expresses probability.
He could have done it.
Imperitive
A command or order
Proper noun.
A name of a place or person. Must have a capital letter.
His name was Alex
Common noun.
A noun that denotes an object.
Sentence fragment.
A group of words that look like sentences but aren’t.
Pronoun.
A noun which refers to somebody or something else.
He/she/it
Monologue
Mono, solo.
Logue, dialogue.
A solo speech spoken by a single character in a play film or novel.
Concrete noun
A physical noun
Personal pronoun
A pronoun that shows more detail to the person like their gender. She
Personification
When something non human is given human attributes/qualities.
Alliteration.
The use of two words in succession with the same sound to create an effect.
Onomatopoeia
A word that initiates a sound.
Bang
Pathetic Fallacy
The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals.
Foreboding.
A feeling that something bad will happen.
Dramatic Irony
irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
Foreshadowing
to show or indicate beforehand
Fronted Adverbial.
Fronted adverbials are words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence, used to describe the action that follows.
Symbolism
Where something symbolises something else.
connotation
An idea or image which is suggested by a word, which is not its dictionary meaning, eg the connotation of ‘desk’ might be school.
dialect
The language of a particular subset of English speakers - often those living in a particular place - having its own unique diction, vocabulary, spelling and even grammar.
ominous
Suggestive of danger to come.
synecdoche
A type of metaphor where you use part of something to refer to the whole. For example, in the phrase ‘all hands on deck’, the hands are people and the deck is the ship.
Empathize
To understand and share someone else’s feelings
Symbolism.
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities .
Motif
A pattern or recurring idea in an artistic work.
Slang
Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group.
Jargon
special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
Narritive Writing
To write a narrative essay, you’ll need to tell a story (usually about something that happened to you) in such a way that he audience learns a lesson or gains insight.
Descriptive Writing
Descriptive Writing is the clear description of people, places, objects, or events using appropriate details. An effective description will contain sufficient and varied elaboration of details to communicate a sense of the subject being described.
