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Figurative language

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Metaphor,simile,personification,extended metaphor

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Frameworks

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Type of language term

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Conjunctions

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Joining words-“and” “but”

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Prepositions

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The way one thing relates to another “on” “under” “above”

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Determiners

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Infront of nouns to indicate quantity “an” “the” “some”

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Exclamatory

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Sentence/word ending with an exclamation mark

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Parse

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Specifically identify the grammatical fungi on of a phrase

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Noun phrase

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A group of words that describe a noun

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Concrete noun

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A physical object

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Proper noun

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Name,people,places

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Abstract noun

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Concept,thing that you can describe not touch

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Collective noun

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A group of things

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Modifiers

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A word that adds to the meaning of another word,or tells us more about its specific features

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Compound word/noun

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Words that join with another to make one word e.g she-hulk

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Epistolary novels

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A novel written in the form of letters/diary entries

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Prosodics

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The way that you change your voice in:pitch,pace,emphasis

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Paralinguistics

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Physical movements that accompany spoken language

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Imperative verb

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Commanding verb “go” “do” “now”

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Intensifier

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Adverbs that add intensity

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Determiner:indefinite article

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“A”

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Determiner:definite article

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“The”

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Morpheme

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A part of a word carrying a specific meaning

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Prefix

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A morpheme we put at the start of word

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Suffix

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A morpheme we out at end of word

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Graphological cohesion

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When there is a connection between the word and what the design is on the page

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Alliterative fricatives

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The use of “f” or “v” sound e.g the flow of the fountain

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Anthromorphism

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Turning an animal into a human

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Zoomorphism

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Turning a human into an animal

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Cliche

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Words/phrases we use all the time

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Sibilance

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The “sss” sound

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Verb

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Action/state of being

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Active verb example

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Running

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Passive verb

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Ran

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Relational verbs (give e.g)

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Tells us how one verb relates to another e.g lived

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Action (give e.g)

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Something happend

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Speech(give e.g)

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Somebody talks e.g shouted,demanded

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Cognition,perception(give e.g)

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Thinking of something e.g felt,thought

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Text

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A piece of verbal communication

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Genre

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Literary genre-thematic

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Semantics words(4)

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Adjectives,nouns,verbs,adverbs

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Grammatical words(4)

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Determiner,prepositions,conjunctions,pronoun

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Affordances(give e.g)

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Freedom in a text to go into great detail e.g talking on the phone

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Limitations/ constraint(give e.g)

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A text that has been more concise,less detail e.g a sonnet poem of 14 lines and 10 syllables each like limiting freedom in text

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Asyndetic listing

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List of phrases without using “and”

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Adversarial conjunction

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Conjunctions that oppose & change direction of a sentence

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Euphemism

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Softer or indirect way of say something

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Lexical choices

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Making choices about the words we use

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Syntax structure

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The order in which we use words

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Stylistic analysis

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When you explore the patterns of language use in any text

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Foregrounding

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What stands out or is brought to your attention either through parallelism or deviation

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Parallelism

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The setting up of textual patterns at any language level

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Deviation

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The breaking of textual patterns at any language level

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Graphology

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The way words are presented on the page

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Anaphora

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Repeated phrase at the start of lines

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Repair

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Correcting oneself when speaking

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