Section A Flashcards
What is imagery?
A general term for descriptive language that helps the reader to imagine something that’s is being written about
What is a Metaphor?
A form of imagery where one thing is described as being something else
What is a simile?
A form of imagery where one thing is described as being similar to something else, using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’
What is Personification?
A form of imagery where a non-living object is described using human actions, features or emotions
What is colour imagery?
Use of colours to form part of a description
What is an adjective?
Words that describe what a person, place, thing or emotion is like
What is a rhetorical question?
A question posed to the audience which requires them to think about there own answer or response
What is a semantic field?
A group of words that belong to the same topic area / theme
What is an imperative?
A direct command, formed with the verb as the first word
What is a verb?
Words that name actions or states of being. Every sentence must contain at least one
What are modal verbs?
Words which indicate possibility or permission: can / could / must / may / might / shall / should / will / would
What is allusion?
A reference to something outside of the text e.g. a literary work, mythological figure, advertising slogan etc.
What does establish mean?
to set up or introduce a topic / setting / character at the beginning
What does develop mean ?
to build up details about a topic / setting / character within a text
What is a cyclical structure?
when the ending of a text reflects the start
What is contrast?
present things that are opposite to each other.
What does chronological mean?
in time order (e.g. a chronological story structure = told in the order which it happened
What is a flashback?
When a story goes back in time to a moment in a characters past.
What is a zoom in?
to move from a broad, general description to a more specific area
What is a zoom out ?
to move from a small focus area to a broader, more general description
What are internal thoughts?
Access to the characters inner personal thoughts and feelings; being metaphorically ‘in the characters head’
What is external action/description?
Description of things that are happening in the outside world of the character; things that a person in the characters world would be able to perceive
What is a dual perspective?
a story told from two different narrative viewpoints / two different characters experiences
What are links back?
when an idea in the text reminds us of something that read earlier in the piece
What is foreground?
to highlight an idea or make it stand out in the text
What is foreshadow?
to hint at something that will (or might) happen later in the text
what is repitition?
including a significant word, phrase or idea in multiple occasions
what is repitition?
including a significant word, phrase or idea in multiple occasions
