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Terminology Flashcards

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What is a concrete noun?

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Objects that we can see, touch and/or perceive in the physical world
around us.

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What is a proper noun?

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The names of specific people, places and things.

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What is a collective noun?

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A collection or group of people, animals or things.

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What is an abstract noun?

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Things which do not exist physically, such as qualities, states of mind,
feelings and ideas.

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What is a noun?

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A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things

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What is an adjective?

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A word which gives more information about a noun

Eg. the ‘furry’ hat

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What is a comparative adjective?

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Adjectives used to compare differences between the two objects they modify (Eg. larger, smaller, faster, higher).

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What is a superlative adjective?

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Adjectives used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality compared to a group of objects.
Eg. ‘the tallest’

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What is a verb?

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A word that expresses an action, process or state

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What is an adverb?

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A word which usually gives more information about a verb

Eg. she could ‘barely’ hear his voice

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What is a pronoun?

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A word that replaces a noun

Eg. ‘he’ or ‘she’

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What are the indefinite articles?

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a, an

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What is the definite article?

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the

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What is the purpose of a determiner?

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Determiners are placed in front of an noun to make it clear what the noun is referring to

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List the possessive pronouns:

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my, your, his, her, its, our, their

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List the pre-determiners:

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such, what, rather, quite

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List the quantifiers:

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a few, a little, much, many, some, most, enough

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Is enough a quantifier or pre-determiner?

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A quantifier

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What is a modal verb?

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These are verbs that indicate likelihood, ability, permission or obligation.

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List the modal verbs:

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can, could, may, might, will, would, must, shall, should

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What is a relative pronoun?

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A pronoun used to connect relative clauses to independent clauses.
Eg. ‘that’, ‘which’, ‘who’

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Give examples of demonstrative pronouns:

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that, this, these, those

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What are indefinite pronouns?

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Pronouns for when you refer to a person or thing that doesn’t need to be specifically identified.
Eg. ‘everybody’ or ‘anybody’

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Give other examples of indefinite pronouns:

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one, other, none, some, no one

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What are reflexive pronouns?

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Pronouns ending in -self or -selves

26
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Give examples of reflexive pronouns:

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myself, ourselves, yourself, him/herself, itself

27
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When are interrogative pronouns used?

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In questions.

28
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Give examples of interrogative pronouns:

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whose, what, who, which

29
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What is an active voice?

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When the subject of the sentence is performing the action described.
Eg. ‘The cat licked’ his paws

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What is an adverbial?

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A word/group of words that function as an adverb, giving more info about how, when or where a verb takes place.
Eg. Roger drove ‘through the town’

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Alliteration

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The repetition of consonants at the beginning of words for emphasis.

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Allusion

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A reference within a text to another event, person, place or work of literature - often adding another layer of meaning in the text.

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Analogy

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A comparison between one thing and another used to explain or clarify something

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Anaphora

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A rhetorical device which involves the repetition of a word or group of words at the start of sentences, phrases or clauses for emphasis

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Anaphoric reference

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A word or expression that refers back to another part of the text

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Anecdote

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A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person in the writer’s life.

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Antagonist

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A character who opposes the protagonist in fictional writing

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Antithesis

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Contrasting ideas or words balanced against each other.

Eg. the contrast of heaven and hell, light and dark, ect.

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Antonym

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A word of opposite meaning to another

Eg. hot/cold

40
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Aphorism

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A neat, memorable or pithy statement of generalisation. These usually expose a truth/partial truth.

Eg. ‘A bad penny always turns up’

41
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Aptronym

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A name that fits the character and nature of a person and/or their occupation. A shorthand way of telling the audience what they should expect from a character’s behaviour.

Eg. Usain “Lightning” Bolt, he is know as the world’s fastest man.

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Archaic Lexis

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Old-fashioned words of phrases which are no longer in current usage, or which are only current in very specific fields, such as legal/medical documents.

Eg. ‘damsel’

43
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Aspirants

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The linguistic name for ‘h’ sounds in language.

44
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Assonance

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds for emphasis.

Eg. Full fathom f’i’ve th’y’ father l’ie’s

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Asyndeton

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A rhetorical device where conjunctions, articles and even pronouns are excluded for the sake of speak or immediacy.

Eg. ‘Only an avenue, dark, nameless, without end.’

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Auxiliary Verb

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A verb positioned in front of a main verb.

Eg. ‘is’, ‘have’ and ‘can’

47
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Backgrounding

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Playing down (to sound less serious) potentially negative aspects of a product, situation or idea.

48
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Bathos

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A form of anti-climax that often produces humour by switching from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Eg.

‘Speaker 1: My boyfriend owns a chain of restaurants.’
‘Speaker 2: You mean he works in a fish and chip shop’

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Blend

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A word formed by combining two others

Eg. ‘brunch’ (breakfast and lunch)

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Caricature

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An extreme depiction of a character where their personality traits are exaggerated to create a specific effect, often comic.

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