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When someone is quoted as saying something

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Direct Speech

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Specialist language in which is specific to something

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Jargon

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I, my, me

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First Person - makes the reader more connected to the speaker

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You, your

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Second Person - Directly adresses and draws in the reader

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he/she/it/they/their/him/her/them

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Third Person - Gives a more complete view of an event

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Two conflicting parts of a text e.g. a really sad part followed by a really funny part

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Contrast

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Two contrasting things happening side by side e.g. ‘ the old farmer ploughed the field enthusiasitcally behind the disconsolate donkey. Or ‘whilst his cold-hearted wife continued to scream at him for being late, he thought of the happy, loving woman he had just left behind him at the hotel.’

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Juxtaposition

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Direct opposites such as life and death, hot and cold

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Binary Opposition

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Opposites, but not absolute opposites. e.g. warm and cold

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Antithesis

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something being described three ways e.g. ‘when I lost the race, I felst as though I had let my friends down, disappointed my family and made a complete fool of myself’

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Rule of three

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Repeating a key word in a sentence, or paragraph, or whole text

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Repetition - drills it into the reader’s mind as important

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An action e.g. singing

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Verb

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Something that qualifies a verb

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Adverb

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describes a noun

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Adjective

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Exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration saying something is the best ‘the most beautiful girl in the room’

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Superlative

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Intended to make someone think/feel/do as you want them to

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Persuasive Language

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Language which is written to create a specific emotional response from the reader, e.g. to make them laugh, to make them scared, feel pity, etc.

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Emotive Language

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An expression to make something less offensive, disturbing, or troubling as the word or phrase it replaces e.g. ‘her dad just passed’

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Euphemism

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E.g. ironic, scathing, chatty, empathetic, harsh, angry, urgent, moving, soft, visceral

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Tone

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Imagery, such as metaphors, similes and symbolism

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Figurative Language

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Something that represents something else

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Symbolism

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Comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’ eg ‘he is as strong as a lion’

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Simile

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Comparing two things by saying something is something else which cannot possibly be true e.g. he had a heart of stone.

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Metaphor

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A command e.g. ‘You must achieve at least a C in your GCSE’

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Imperative Sentence

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A question e.g. ‘do you think you can achieve a t least a C in your GCSE’

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Interrogative Sentence

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A statement e.g. ‘you can achieve at least a C in your GCSE’

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Declarative Sentence

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Saying something which normally means or shows the opposite, e.g. ‘how do you spell intelligent’ OR a situation that appears opposite to what one expects

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Irony

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A nasty form of irony

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Sarcasm

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A group of words all associated with the same thing, e.g. candy floss, roller-coaster, haunted house, waterslide all relate to theme parks

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Lexical Field

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Suggests something in addition to its primary meaning, e.g. ‘he had blood on his hands’

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Connotations

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Words or phrases which clash vowel and consonant sounds to make them sound unpleasant and foreboding, e.g. ‘fierce-throated beauty’

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Dissonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds, e.g. ‘light of my life’

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Assonance

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When two or more words in a sentence start with the same letter or sound

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Alliteration

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When a word sounds like itself, e.g. cuckoo, buzz, hiss, etc

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Onomatopoeia

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A joke that uses a word or words with more than one meaning

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Pun

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When the weather or atmosphere reflects the mood or atmosphere of the text, e.g. if a character is sad and it is raining outside or if they are happy and it is sunny.

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Pathetic Fallacy

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When something non-human is given human characteristics e.g. the wind sighed through the trees

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Personification

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A question that doesn’t need answering because the answer is obvious or is intended to provoke thought, e.g. ‘Don’t you deserve to be happy?’

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Rhetorical Question

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Polite, standard English

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Formal Language

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Colloquial, everyday English, slang, etc

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Informal Language

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One main idea/clause e.g. ‘a book fell on John’s foot’

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Simple Sentence

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Two main ideas/clauses usually connected with an ‘and’, ‘a book fell on John’s foot and a book fell on Mary’s foot’

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Compound Sentence

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A main idea with a sub-clause. e.g. ‘A book fell on John’s foot when he pushed the table’ or use a semi colon ‘a book fell on John’s foot; he knocked it off the table’

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Complex Sentence

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Places, feelings and ideas e.g. home, school, book, computer, trees

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Common Nouns

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Names of specific people and places e.g. ‘England, John,

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Proper Nouns

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Groups of objects e.g. ‘army’, ‘family’, ‘audience’

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Collective Noun

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Something that can be perceived with the senses, it is corporeal

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Concrete

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Used so that a noun doesn’t have to be reused e.g. ‘you, me, I, them, him, her’

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Pronoun

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An intangible idea or concept

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Abstract Noun

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A verb that give an instruction ‘stop’, ‘bring’, ‘give’, ‘tell

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Imperative Verb

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A verb which does not physically move but is still happening e.g. ‘love’, ‘hate’, ‘prefer’, ‘own’, ‘understand’

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Stative Verb

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A verb which is physically moving or changing. e.g. ‘walk’, ‘learn’, ‘read’, ‘become’

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Dynamic Verb

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A clause with a subject, a verb and an object, they make sense on their own e.g. ‘I like bananas

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Main Clause

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A clause that relies on a main clause connected to it in order to make sense

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Subordinate Clause

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Words which only contain one syllable e.g. ‘yes’, ‘cat’

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monosyllabic

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Alliteration with an s

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Sibilance

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Personification that isn’t metaphorical

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Anthropomorphism

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An overused phrase or opinion e.g. ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’

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Cliché

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a phrase that explains or qualifies something

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Parenthetical Remark

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Two or more words that can act as an adverb

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Adverbial Phrase

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A well-known metaphorical phrase where the meaning doesn’t relate to the words making it up. e.g. ‘A penny for your thoughts’

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Idiom

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Appealing to emotion

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Pathos

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When words are left out of a sentence and replaced with …

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Elipsis - Can create Tension

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series of phrases or sentences. E.g. ‘I have a dream’

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Anaphora

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A hint that something will happen

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Foreshadowing

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Two conflicting words next to each other e.g. ‘loving hate’

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Oxymoron

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When a metaphor continues throughout a text

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Extended Metaphor

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when multiple sentences, phrases or paragraphs end with the same word or phrase

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Epistrophe

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