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Flashcards by William Sowden, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by William Sowden
over 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Tone | The quality or character of the language used. |
| Register | The level or pitch of the language e.g. informal to suggest a close relationship. |
| Similes | A figure of speech where two distinct things are explicitly compared using "like" or "as". |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is used to suggest a quality; not literal e.g. hard-hearted. |
| Rhetoric | The art of using persuasive language devices. |
| Irony | The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
| Alliteration | Sound pattern created by stressing the same consonant sound or sound group e.g. cold, calculating and cruel. |
| Word Level | Analyse lexical choice (vocabulary) and the type of language used (emotive, technical, informal, simple, figurative, formal). |
| Sentence level | Features of sentence variety and construction (simple vs. complex sentences, variety, punctuation, tense, person). |
| Text Level | Sequence and presentation of material (this can include illustrations, layout, and "signposting" by use of headings). |
| Nouns | Names of things, places or people. |
| Concrete or common nouns | These are physical things, in other words, things that you can see and touch e.g. apple, umbrella. |
| Proper nouns | This always begins with a capital letter to indicate the name of a person or place: William, Britain, Prague. |
| Capital letters | In addition to using them for the first letter of proper and abstract nouns, they are also used for the titles of people, books, films, plays and magazines, for example, A Tale of Two Cities. |
| Collective nouns | Refers to a group of objects, animals or people: team, flock. |
| Abstract nouns | They refer to things that cannot be seen or touched so normally relates to a feeling, concept or occasion e.g. Christmas, Diwali, Peace. |
| Personal pronouns | Take the place of a noun and can be 1st, 2nd or 3rd person address. They can be used as the subject or object of a sentence e.g. I, me, you, they. |
| Verb | a "doing" or "being" word. |
| Conjunctions | Words that link two parts of a sentence or two or more sentences together e.g. and, but, or. |
| Adverbs | These modify verbs and tell us how something is or was done. |
| Adjectives | Words used to describe nouns. |
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