Language Terms/ Techniques

Question 1

Verb

Answer 1

A doing or being word

Question 2

Adverb

Answer 2

a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb

Question 3

Adjective

Answer 3

a word naming an attribute of a noun

Question 4

Common noun

Answer 4

a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual.

Question 5

Proper noun

Answer 5

Name of an individual

Question 6

Collective noun

Answer 6

A noun referring to a group of individuals

Question 7

Abstract noun

Answer 7

A word referring to an idea or concept, not something physical

Question 8

Pronoun

Answer 8

a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).

Question 9

Concrete noun

Answer 9

Concrete nouns are things that you can experience through your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch

Question 10

Personal pronoun

Answer 10

each of the pronouns in English ( I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them ) comprising a set that shows contrasts of person, gender, number, and case.

Question 11

Phrase

Answer 11

a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.

Question 12

Clause

Answer 12

a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.

Question 13

Alliteration

Answer 13

The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a group of words

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

A word that is associated with the sound it makes

E.g. Bang

Question 15

Personification

Answer 15

When you give something not human, human qualities

Question 16

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 16

the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, usually the weather!

Question 17

Foreboding

Answer 17

implying that something bad is going to happen

Question 18

Dramatic Irony

Answer 18

When the audience know something the character(s) don’t

Question 19

Foreshadowing

Answer 19

A warning or indication of a future event

Question 20

Modal verbs

Answer 20

Verb that expresses necessity

Question 21

Fronted adverbial

Answer 21

‘Fronted’ adverbials are ‘fronted’ because they have been moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb.

Question 22

Agent noun

Answer 22

An agent noun defines who or what is carrying out the action of a verb. It is usually spelt with the suffix -er.

E.g. driver

Question 23

Cliché

Answer 23

A cliché is a phrase used over and over, to the point that it betrays a lack of original thought.

Question 24

Empathize

Answer 24

To understand and share someone else’s feelings

Question 25

Motif

Answer 25

a pattern or recurring idea in an artistic

work.

Question 26

Symbolism

Answer 26

the use of symbols to represent

ideas or qualities.

Question 27

Slang

Answer 27

Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group

Question 28

Jargon

Answer 28

Specialist language. When someone is talking in a way not understood by others.

Question 29

Colloquialism

Answer 29

General informal language. Understood by all.

Question 30

Narrative Structure

Answer 30

A narrative or story is a report of connected event

Question 31

Descriptive Writing

Answer 31

Describing a scene or person without moving everywhere. Wether that is physically or metaphorically