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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Proper noun

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Particular places e.g. London

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Common noun

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General term for things that are tangible, “chair” and “penguin”

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Concrete noun

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Physical things that can be touched or measured

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Abstract noun

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Ideas, emotions, times, qualities occasions e.g. fear

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Collective noun

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Groups of people, animals or objects e.g. murder of crows

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Verb

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Doing actions

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Adjective

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Modifies a noun

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Attributive adjective

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Before a noun

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Predicative adjective

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After a noun

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Descriptive adjective

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Describing the noun e.g. the black cat

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Evaluative adjective

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Evaluates what the noun is e.g. the good dog

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Emotive adjective

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Uses emotive words to describe noun e.g. the despairing child

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Adverb

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Modifies a verb

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Preposition

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Where something is (under, above)

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Determiners

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A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has (a, an, the, every)

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Conjunction

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A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (and, but, if)

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Personal pronoun

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A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you, he, she)

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Repetition

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When a word, phrase or topic is repeated

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Interrogative sentence

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Sentence mood of a question

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Declarative sentence

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Sentence mood that states something

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Imperative sentence

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Sentence mood that orders something

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Exclamatory sentence

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Sentence mood that shouts something e.g. that uses ‘!’

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Adverb of manner

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How things are done

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Adverb of time

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When things are done

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Adverb of frequency

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How often things are done

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Adverb of place

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Where things are done

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Purpose

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The purpose of the text

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Audience

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The specific audience

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Form

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What type of text it is e.g. if a letter it should contain address etc. at top left

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Expletives

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swearing

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Superlative

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The best form of something e.g. “smartest, bravest, shortest”

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Possessive pronoun

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“Mine, yours, his”

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Interrogative pronoun

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“Who, what, where”

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Metaphors

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Describes one thing to describe another

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Simile

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A simile is a comparison between two different things, designed to create an unusual, interesting, emotional or other effect often using words such as ‘like’ or ‘as’

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Comparatives

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Better than something else e.g. “taller, smaller, braver”

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Tense

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Tense is used to show the relation between the action or state described by the verb and the time, two basic tenses in English; the present tense and the past tense.

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Dynamic verb

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A verb in which involves movement

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Stative Verb

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A word that describes a state of being, “love” , “want”, “hear”

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Auxiliary Verb

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A verb that has to used with another verb in order to create present participles or future tense, “DID you go?”

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Syntax

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The way words form sentences (the ordering of them to create meaning)

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Parenthesis

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An aside within the text , created by sectioning off extra information between brackets, dashes and commas.

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Rhetorical question

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A question designed not to be answered. A choice of style.

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Hypophora

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When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer from the text.

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Litote

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Deliberately playing down something for effect.

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Patterning/ Parallelism

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The creation of patterns in the text through repetition of words or phrases (phonological parallelism) or by balancing meaning (semantic parallelism) for deliberate effect.

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Tripling

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Grouping in threes, either through repetition or structures.

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Imagery

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A descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture.

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Demonstrative Pronoun

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“This, that, those”

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Attitudes

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The attitude or opinions expressed within the text.

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Form

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Structure and shape of the text.

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Colloquialism

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Informal language used, “bloke” and “fella”

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Personification

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Giving human qualities or actions to objects.

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Antithesis

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Contrast

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Neologism

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A newly created word.

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Orthography

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The conventional spelling system of a language.

English Language A level (3 decks)

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