TeKNeek Flashcards
Simile
A comparasion where one thing is compared to another
Eg. The lions roar was as loud as a jet engine
Metaphor
A comparasion where one thing is said actually to be another
Eg. The exploding sun rise
Personification
When you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn’t human or isn’t alive
Eg. The rolling hills
Alliteration
The repetition of the same sound at the begining of words to create effect
Eg. The green grass grew
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates a sound
Raored
Pattern of three
Listing three things to create a specific effect
Eg. Catch, look, pass
Language for emotive effect
Words and phrases deliberatly used to provoke a specific amotional reaction
Eg. The helpless rhinos where poached
Rhetorical question
A question that is aksed for effect rather than for an answer
Eg. How old are you? (In anger)
Adjective
A word to describe a place, person or thing
Eg. The fast rabbit
Verb
A doing or being verb that has a tense
Eg. Last night, I jogged for an hour
Phrase
A group of words that can be understood as a unit
Eg. Across the road
Clause
A type of phrase that includes a subject and an active verb
Eg. Because he was young
Simple sentence
The most basic form of a sentence
Eg. He ran
Compound sentence
A sentence that contains two independent clasues joined by a coordinating conjuction, such as “for”
Eg. My mum was shopping but I was playing
Complex sentence
A sentence that has a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses
Eg. The dunk man who had drank a few pints crossed the road
Punctuation
Marks used to aid the understanding of a piece of writing. Writers can use punctuation imaginatively to create an effect.
Eg. She was nice, pretty and kind
Dialogue
A conversation between two or more characters
Flashback
A section in the text that is set before the main events of the story
Future tense
A verb that describes something that is going to happen in the future
Narrator
The person who tells the story
Past tense
A verb that describes something that happened in the past
Point of view
The way a character regards events or people
Present tense
A verb that is describing that is happening now
Sequence
The order in which things happen
Setting
Where the events take place
Stucture
The organization of the text
Narrative
A written story or account
Narrative voice
The person telling the story from their point of view
Perspective
A particular view of something
Structural feature
A feature that helps structure the text
Empathize
To understand and share someone else’s feelings
Plot
The events in a story
Atmosphere
Mood
Bathos
An absupt transition in stule from the exalted to commonplace, producing a humorous effect
Synthesize
Produce something that has been blended together from different sources
Summarize
To give the main points of something, briefly
Interpret
Explain the meaning of something in your own words, showing your understanding
Non-fiction
Writing that is factual rather than fictional or made up
Implied
Suggested
