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What is a noun

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A person,place or thing

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What is a proper noun

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Special person,place or thing

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What is a common noun

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Ordinary thing

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What is a concrete noun

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Name of a thing which you can feel, see or smell

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What is an abstract noun

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A feeling/idea/quality you can’t see or smell

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What is a collective noun

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A group

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What is an Adjective

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It describes a noun. They are sometimes called describing words

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What is this word. You’ve

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You have

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What is this word. I’ve

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I have

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What is this word. I’ll

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I will

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What is this word. Haven’t

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Have not

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What is this word. It’s

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It is / it has

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What is this word. Can’t

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Can not

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What is this word. They’re

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They are

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What is this word. We’re

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We are

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What is a homophone ?

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A word that sound the same but is spelt differently and has a different meaning

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What is a colon ?

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They often introduce an explanation.
The bit after explains or expands.
Colons can come before a list, quotation or answer

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What is a dash ?

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Create a pause (can creat surprise or drama).
Use instead of a semi-colon in informal writing

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What is a semi-colon ?

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Helps you join closely connected ideas in a sentence.
It can also break up a list

20
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What is onomatopoeia

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A word that sound like the noise it describes

21
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What is an adverb ?

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An adverb describes a verb
Then add ly

22
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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same constant sound at the beginning of words

23
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Haiku

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1st line = 5 syllables
2nd line = 7 syllables
3rd line =5 syllables

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Personification

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Human characteristics are given to non- human things

25
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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words which sound like there meaning

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Simile

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Compares 2 unlike things using like or as

27
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Metaphors

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Compares 2 unlike things, stating one is the other

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Eulogy

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Tribute to someone’s life usually read aloud

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Emotive language k

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The term used when certain word choices are made to evoke an emotional response in the reader

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

31
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Personification

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The attribute of a personal nature or human characteristic to something non human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

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Simile

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with an other thing f a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid e.g. as light as a feather

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Onomatopoeia

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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Alliteration

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of advancement or closely connected words

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action is not taken literally

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Colour imagery

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Using colours it represent a deeper meaning

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Ellipsis

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The omissions from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from context clues …

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Imperative

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Can’t b3 avoided or evaded/sentence that gives urgent commands

39
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Dialogue

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A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book or film

40
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Pathetic fallacy

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The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals (especially in art or literature) (mostly used in weather)

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Sensory appeal

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Draws ficus on Amy of the 5 senses. Creates immediacy

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