techniques

Question 1

What are the 3 types of nouns?

Answer 1

Proper
Abstract
Concrete

Question 2

What is a proper noun?

Answer 2

Refers to a place or persons name (James, England)

Question 3

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 3

Refers to states, feelings and concepts that do not have a physics existence (love, anger)

Question 4

What is a concrete noun?

Answer 4

Refers to objects that have a physical existence.
Countable (can be pluralised = cup)
Non-countable (do not take the plural form = furniture)

Question 5

What are the 4 types of verbs?

Answer 5

Material
Relational
Mental
Verbal

Question 6

What is a material verb?

Answer 6

Show actions or events

Question 7

What is a relational verb?

Answer 7

Identity properties or shows states of being (be, appear, seem, become)

Question 8

What is a mental verb?

Answer 8

Shows internal processes such as thinking (think, believe, wish)

Question 9

What is a verbal verb?

Answer 9

Shows external processes of communication through speech (say, shout, scream, whisper)

Question 10

What are the 3 types of adjectives/adverbs?

Answer 10

Base
Comparative
Superlative

Question 11

What is a base adjective/adverb?

Answer 11

The base form of an adjective/adverb, modifying another word (big, interesting, carefully)

Question 12

What is a comparative adjective-adverb?

Answer 12

A from used to compare two instances either adding ‘er’ or using ‘more’ (parcel was bugger, more interesting game, most carefully)

Question 13

What is a superlative adjective/adverb?

Answer 13

A form used to compare more than two incidences, identifying the best example using ‘est’ or ‘most’ (biggest castle, most interesting, more carefully)

Question 14

What are the 3 different types of pronouns?

Answer 14

Personal
Demonstrative
Indefinite

Question 15

What is a personal pronoun?

Answer 15

Refers to people and a differentiated in terms of person (1st, 2nd, 3rd), number (single, plural), and gender (male or female)

Question 16

What are the demonstrative pronouns?

Answer 16

Orientate the reader or listener towards a person, object or idea, either nearby or further away

Question 17

What is an indefinite pronoun?

Answer 17

Refers to a person, object or idea that is non-specific

Question 18

What are the 3 types of determiners?

Answer 18

Articles
Possessives
Quantifiers

Question 19

What is an article determiner?

Answer 19

Shows that something is definite or indefinite (the = definite, a/an = indefinite)

Question 20

What is a possessive determiner?

Answer 20

Shows ownership (my, your, her, ours)

Question 21

What is a quantifying determiner?

Answer 21

Shows either specific or non-specific quantities of a noun

Question 22

What are the 2 types of conjunctions?

Answer 22

Coordinating

Subordinating

Question 23

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 23

Link words or larger structures such as phrases and clauses together where they are equal (and, but, or, yet)

Question 24

What is a subordinating conjunction?

Answer 24

Link clauses together to show one is dependent on another (because, although, while, for)

Question 25

What is Story world?

Answer 25

Refers to a shared universe within which the setting, characters, objects, actions or events of one or more narrative exists.

Question 26

What is a homodiegetic narrative?

Answer 26

A first person narrative (I, me)

Question 27

What is a syndetic list?

Answer 27

A list which items are connected by AND (eggs and ham and bread and milk)

Question 28

What is an asyndetic list?

Answer 28

A list in which are connected by commas (eggs, ham, bread, milk)

Question 29

What is foregrounding?

Answer 29

When writers draw attention to key ideas in text through their use of language. This is done in 2 different ways

Question 30

What is parallelism foregrounding?

Answer 30

Writers set up patterns of language often repeated (There was a hill, and on this hill, where was a road, and this road was narrow and straight)

Question 31

What is deviation foregrounding?

Answer 31

Where the writer deliberately breaks the rules pf language expectations (Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe

Question 32

What is a modality?

Answer 32

The term used to describe language that presents degrees of attitude or commitment

Question 33

What is a deontic modality?

Answer 33

Expressions that highlight a sense of obligation or necessity Eg. You must come back It is necessary for you to come back

Question 34

What are the 3 types of Korte's body language?

Answer 34

Kinesics Haptics Proxemics

Question 35

What is a kinesic body language? Examples?

Answer 35

Gestures, postures, eye and facial movements and body movements due to feelings or emotions e.g. trembling

Question 36

What is a haptic? Examples?

Answer 36

Touching another person e.g holding, kissing, shaking hands, pushing, punching.

Question 37

What is a proxemic? Examples?

Answer 37

Movement in relation to another character's personal space e.g moving closer to, further away from.

Question 38

What are the 6 different types of speech in fiction?

Answer 38

Direct speech (DS) Free direct speech (FDS) Indirect speech (ID) Free indirect speech (FID) Narrator's representation of speech act (NRSA) Narrator's representation of speech (NRS)

Question 39

What is direct speech? Examples?

Answer 39

The narrating voice tells us the characters exact words, indicated by the speech marks and the speech clause "she said". "I want to see as little of you as possible", she said.

Question 40

What is free direct speech? Examples?

Answer 40

The narrating voice tells us the character's actual words. The speech clause is removed so there is no framing but the narrator. "I want to see as little of you as possible"

Question 41

What is an example of indirect speech? Examples?

Answer 41

The speech clause introduces what the character said, but the actual words are not given. Instead the narrator reports them, changing the verb tense and pronouns from the narrating perspective. The gives the speech greater narrating framing. "She said that she wanted to see as little of me as possible"

Question 42

What is free direct speech? Examples?

Answer 42

There is no direct representation of the words. The pronoun I has been replaced by she. However the use of "her" positions this version from the perspective