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Verb

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A doing word

Eg.swam,run

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Adverbs

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A word describing a verb

Eg.ran quickly

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Adjectives

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A object

Eg. Car,bike

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Noun

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Places or things

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same sound or letter

Eg. sweet birds sang

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Onomatopoeia

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A word made to sound like something

Eg.sizzle,crack

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Personification

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A name given to something that is not human

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Pathetic fallacy

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the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals

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Foreboding

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A feeling that something bad will happen

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Dramatic irony

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Somebody saying or doing something that normally means the opposite

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Foreshadowing

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A warning or indication of a future event

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Fronted adverbial

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Means moved to a front or start of a sentence

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Modal verb

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A auxiliary verb to describe necessity or possibility

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Common noune

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A noun denoting a class or object

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Proper noun

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A name used for a individual

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Pronoun

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A word that can function as a noun

Eg. She,it

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Personal pronoun

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A set that shows contrast of persons

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Abstract noun

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A noun denoting a idea

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Concrete noun

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A name denoting a material or object

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Collective noun

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A noun appears singular in formal shape

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Phrase

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It is in a group of words that functions as a constituent

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Clause

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consist of a subject and predicate.

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Symbolism

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the use of symbols to represent ideas or

qualities.

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Motif

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a pattern or recurring idea in an artistic work.

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Slang

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Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group

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Jargon

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To speak in a way that other people find it difficult to uderstand

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Narrative writing

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Writing a story but not in the normal way like a poem

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Descriptive writing

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Describing a scene and people

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