Terminology

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Abstract Noun

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A naming word for an idea, concept, state of being or belief

eg. tidiness, sadness, love, politics, Marxism.

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Proper Noun

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A naming word for a specific example of a common noun

eg. Bob, Eiffel Tower, Burnley, Wayne Rooney

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Common Noun

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A naming word for a thing that is tangible

eg. chair, penguin, man, arsonist, murderer, ghost, crumpet, trumpet

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Active Verb

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A word that represents a physical action

eg. jump, run, kill, slap, kiss

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Stative Verb

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A word that represents a process that is often only mental

eg. think, love, ponder, believe

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Modal Verb

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An auxiliary verb that expresses either possibility or necessity
eg. might, could, should, must, may

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Auxiliary Verb

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A verb that has to be used with another verb in order to create present participles or the future tense
eg. most, biggest, smallest, furthest, worst, farthest, quickest, zaniest (most end with -est)

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Comparative Verb

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An adjective that relates one thing in some way to another (usually ends in -er)
eg. farther, bigger, smaller, further, quicker, zanier

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Imperative

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Issuing a command

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Declarative

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Making a statement

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Interrogative

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Asking a question

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Exclamatory

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Strong sense of emotion, sense of alarm or overly strong emphasis

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Register

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Level of formality of a text

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Tenor

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Tone between author and reader and how it is created

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Colloquialism

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Informal use of language

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Syntax

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The way words form sentences (the ordering of them to create meaning)

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Parenthesis

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An ‘aside’ created in a text created by sectioning off information with brackets, dashes or between two commas

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Litotes

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Deliberately downplaying things for effect (think Modest proposal)

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Hypophora

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When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer
eg. “Is it the best film ever? You bet it is!”

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Tricolon

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Rule of three

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Archaic

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An ‘old-fashioned’ word that has fallen out of use over time

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Binary opposites

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Elements of a text that hold opposite ends of a notional scale
eg. hot/cold, big/small

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Asyndetic Listing

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Listing without any form of conjunction

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Syndetic Listing

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Listing with the use of conujunctions

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Pastiche

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A form of art that mimics another form or genre to generate humour

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Inverted Syntax

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When the ordering of words is rearranged to create an alternative weighting to a sentence (think Yoda)

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Prosodic Features

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‘Sound effects’ of spoken language. Things like stress, intonation and pitch

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Erudite Audience

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning