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Metaphor

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metaphor is a way of comparing things by stating that one thing is the same or very similar to another seemingly unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy, and is often mistaken with simile. The difference between metaphor and simile is that a simile includes “like” or “as” in the comparison whereas metaphor is an assertion of the comparison without modifiers or conjunctions.

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Alliteration

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alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent words.

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Auxiliary verb

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A verb that has to be used with another verb in order to create present particles or the future tense.

EG->
DID you go?
I AM going.
You WILL go.

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Modal verb

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An auxiliary verb that expresses a degree of possibility or necessity.

EG->
Could , should , may , might.

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Stative verb

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A word representing a process that is often only mental.

EG->
Love, ponder, believe, to fear.

I [love] you. Stative sense

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Active verb

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A word representing a physical action.

EG->
Jump, run, kill, slap, kiss.

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Verb

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A word that represents an action or process

EG->

Walking, skipping

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Proper noun

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A naming word for a specific example of a common noun. Often places or names of people

EG->
Bob, Eiffel Tower, Burnley, Wayne Rooney.

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Synecdoche

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A metaphor that states that something is only a small constituent part of itself even though we understand otherwise.

EG->
A new set of wheels (car).

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Common noun.

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A naming word for a thing that is tangible.

EG->
Chair, penguin, man, murderer, ghost, crumpet.

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Abstract noun

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A naming word for an idea, concept, state of being or belief.

EG->
Sadness, love, politics, Marxism, hate

[love] is in the air. Abstract sense.

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Declarative sentence

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When a sentence is making a statement.

EG->
I don’t like cheese.

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Interrogative sentence.

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When a sentence is asking a question.

EG->
Where are you going ?

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Exclamative sentence

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When a sentence conveys. String sense of emotion, sense of alarm it overly strong emphasis.

EG->
That was fantastic !

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Register

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The level of formality of a text

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Tenor

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The tone or the relationship between the author and the reader and how it is created.

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Allusion

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To refer to something indirectly or metaphorically.

EG->
Don’t act like Romeo In front of her !

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First person pronoun

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I - singular

We, our , us - plural

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Second person pronoun

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You

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Third person pronoun

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Him, her , he , she - singular

Them , those - plural

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Possessive pronoun

1st, 2nd, 3rd

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My, mine, our , your, his, hers , theirs

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Demonstrative pronoun

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This, that, those

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Monosyllabic Lexis

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Words of one syllable,

EG->
Yes, no, but

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Polysyllabic Lexis

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Words of two or more syllables

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Colloquialism

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Informal language usage

EG->
Bloke, fella, lass, arse, scran

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Exclamation

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A one word sentence (always a minor sentence) with an exclamation mark at the end.

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Ellipsis

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When parts of a written structure are missing. Indicated by 3 dots

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Syntax

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The ordering of words in a sentence to create meaning

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Parenthesis

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Extra information between brackets dashes it between two commas

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Rhetorical question

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A question deigned not to be answered. Piques interest

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Hypophora

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When a rhetorical question is followed by an answer

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate over exaggeration for effect

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Liotes

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Deliberate downplaying of things for effect.

EG->
It is not rocket science,

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Parallelism

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Creation of patterns in a text through repetition:

  • phrases (phonological parallelism)
  • balancing meaning ( semantic parallelism)
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Tricolon

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Grouping in threes either through repetition of structures for emphasis or add sense of momentum.

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Imagery

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Descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create vivid picture

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Post modification

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Descriptive technique where the descriptive words come after what they’re describing.

EG->

The wad of cash big and fat, spewed from his pockets.

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Simile

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A comparison that states that something is like or as something else

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Pronoun

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A word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence

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Indefinite article

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A / An

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Definite article

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The

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Comparative

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An adjective that relates one thing in some way to another, typically ends in -er

EG->
Bigger, smaller, farther.

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Superlative.

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An adjective that displays the most extreme values of its quality. Mainly end with -est.

EG->
Biggest, smallest, smelliest, furthest.

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Adverb

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A describing word that modifies all types of words excludes nouns.

EG->
Quickly, greedily, beautifully

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Adjective

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A describing word that modifies a noun.

EG->
Beautiful, adorable, meaningless

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Pre-modification

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Descriptive technique where the descriptive words come before the thing they’re describing.

EG->
Big, fat wad of cash spewed from his pockets.

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Analogy

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Explaining something in terms of something else.

EG->
If people were like rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane

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Imperative sentence

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When a sentence is issuing a command.

EG->
Go left and it’s first on your right.

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Anaphoric reference

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Making reference to something previously identified

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Cataphoric reference

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Making reference forward to something as yet Unidentified in the text

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Exophoric reference

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Making reference to things beyond the language of a text itself

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Topographical features

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Features of fonts used in texts such as font size shape and colour

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Orthographical features

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Features in the writing system such as spelling, capitalisation and punctuation

A Level English Lit/Lang (4 decks)

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