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| Question | Answer |
| Acronym | A word formed from initial letters in phrase, e.g. AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| Adjective | A word to modify a noun or pronoun, usually a descriptive meaning, e.g. shiny or scary |
| Adverbs | Words that modify verbs, clauses, sentences and adjectives, e.g. quickly and fortunately |
| Allegory | Used as literary devices or rhetorical, that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions and imagery which create a moral, spiritual or political meaning |
| Alliteration | The use of repeated consonants in neighbouring words, e.g. wonderful wilderness |
| Auditory Imagery | Makes the reader have a sense of imagery through noise, music or other sounds |
| Clause | Is a word construction containing a nominative and predicate, e.g. a subject doing verb |
| Cliche | A word or phrase that once had originality but has now become exhausted through overuse, e.g. it felt like someone has stepped over my grave |
| Colloquialism | Is the use of informal words, phrases or slang in writing, e.g. y'all or go nuts |
| Connotation | An indirect implication or suggestion from a word, beyond literal meaning |
| Denotation | The direct or explicit meaning of word or string of words |
| Dialogue | The speech between two or more characters in any type of text |
| Didactic | Writing that aims to instruct, or even preach, moral message |
| End-stop | The line ending in full pause such as full stop or semicolon, highlight a rhyme or point |
| Enjambment | A line in poetry which does not end punctuation or a pause |
| Intertextuality | Referring to a other text |
| Juxtaposition | Two or more ideas that contrast against each other |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two things not usually compared, e.g. The ladder of success |
| Narrator | The voice that speaks or tells a story |
| Noun - Concrete, Abstract or Proper | Concrete - a object that you can touch. Abstract - Feelings or something you can touch Proper - names of places and people |
| Oxymoron | The use of contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a a deeper level, e.g. without laws we can have no freedom |
| Pathetic Fallacy | A device that gets human emotions across with weather or nature |
| Personification | When abstractions animals, ideas and objects are given human traits |
| Pronoun | A linguistic term for a word which substitutes for a noun such as 'you' or 'she' or 'it' |
| Simile | A comparison of two things not usually paired and made by using the adverbs like or as |
| Sibilance | Alliteration with 's' the snake slithered soundlessly |
| Verb | A verb 'does' the subject action in a sentence, e.g. ate or walked |
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