Vocab Flashcards
Verb
Doing word
Adverb
A description of a verb, adjective or another adverb
Adjective
Describing a noun
Preposition
A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence
Parralel structure
Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance
Discorse marker
Words like right, okay, so, to begin with, anyway
Asyndetic
A list with no connectives
Polysyndetic list
A list with connectives
Immediate comparison
Comparing something to something in real life that the reader can do e.g. was the size of my hand
Visceral
Graphic
Ethereal
Not really there / ghostly
Syndecdoche
Referring to a whole thing by only part of it e.g. referring to ships by their sails
Vernacular
Technical terminology (niche)
Dynamism
Being dynamic / movement
Transliteration
Writing another language how it sounds
Postlapsarian
After the fall of man
Parenthesis
Side point (written in brackets)
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the begining of the next clause
Emphatic
Expressing something clearly / forcefully
Volta
Turning point
Consonance
Repetition of consonants
What should you do when you notice a technique?
- look at where else it is used
What is a definite or indefinite article? And what does it do?
‘A’ or ‘the’
Determines the subject of a sentence (emphasise importance of object or subject
What can imphanitlising and emphatic language be used for?
- nostalgia
- humiliating / degrading
- an adult trying to be a child
