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English A2 - Terminology
- Adjective = Describes a noun
- Alliteration - two consecutive words starting with the same letter
- Assonance - the repetition of the sound of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllable
- Caesura - A break between words within a metrical foot, within a Poem
- Concrete Noun - a sense or a more physical entity that can be observed by a sense
- Connotations - when something means one thing but could symbolize something else
- Content - The things that are held or included in something for e.g. Content's page
- Context - Something surrounding a specific point of word, e.g. context of a book
- Couplet - Rhyming couplet is when two consecutive lines end with a rhyming word
- Enjabment - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
- Euphemism - A mild or indirect word or expression when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
- Hyperbole - A drastic exaggeration to an unrealistic event or happening that causes emphasis
- Imagery - Usually the use of senses, more specifically the sense of sight and similes/metaphors to describe
- Metaphor - a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- Noun - Is used to identify a Person, Place or Thing, also known as a common noun
- Onomatopoeia - A word which sounds like the action it makes e.g. WOOSH! or BANG!
- Oxymoron - Putting two opposite words in the same phrase e.g. Pretty Ugly
- Pathetic Fallacy - when the whether reflects whats going on in the texts
- Personification - describing something that is still and inhumane to have human features
- Proper Noun - A name used for an individual person, place, or organization
- Purpose - The reason for which something is done
- Repetition - When a word is stated more than once to emphasise
- Rhythm - A beat or melody to which something is said
- Sibilants - the repetition of the 'S' sound in a phrase or sentence
- Simile - To say something is 'LIKE' something else
- Stanza - Also known as a Verse in the world of poetry
- Themes- A recurring message or approach which shows the audience a message or viewpoint
- Tone - How something is said or the atmosphere of a text
- Abstract Noun - A noun that isn't a physical thing but a feeling or emotion
- Allusion - To state something without specifically saying what you mean/what it is
- Alternate Rhyme - Found in Poetry with Rhyming words on Alternative lines e.g. ABAB
- Archaism - The use of Old language in texts linking the context
- Attitudes - Like a theme or a tone of a text, also could be linked with context/ socially
- Conceit - An extended metaphor lasting more than just a phrase or sentence
- Declarative mood - Where phrases/sentences are said in declaratives
- Definite article - A determiner that introduces a Noun
- Exclamatory Mood - A group of phrases/sentences said with exclamation mark to emphasise
- Eye Rhyme - where it looks like it would rhyme but the words sound different e.g. fear and bear
- Iambic - Iamb meaning 2 syllables unstressed stressed
- Internal Rhyme - where there is rhyme within the line of a poerm
- Interrogative Mood - Where a paragraph or verse is stated with lots of questions
- Juxtaposition - contrasting phrases that are close together
- Lexis - Words and their Classes
- Mode of address - how the audience is addressed
- Octet - Poetry stanza with eight Lines
- Pentameter = line of poetry with five metrical feet counting to ten syllables
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