Definitions Flashcards
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Adjective
A word that describes a noun or pronoun
Verb
A doing or being word
Noun
Person, place or thing
Pronoun
A word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase. E.g. you
Adverb
A word that describes a verb usually ending in ‘ly’
Superlative
The highest quality or degree of something
Metaphor
A figure of speech which is directly referred to one thing. E.g. time is money
Personification
When a thing or object is portraying human actions
Pathetic fallacy
When you give human emotions to something non-human
Simile
When a figure if speech directly compares 2 things by using ‘as’ or ‘like’
Alliteration
When nearby words have the same or similar sounding first letter.
Sentence structure
The order of all the parts of a sentence
Types of narrators
First Person, Second person, Third person
Types of 3rd person narrators
Limited - the narrator knows the inner thoughts and feelings of the character
Objective - they only say what the character does. They don’t know anything about the character.
Omniscient - they know the inner thoughts and feelings of more than one character. The narrator is all knowing and seeing
Focus
The centre of interest or activity
Shift
To change the focus onto something else
Repetition
When the same word or phrase is repeated
Pace
The speed at which lines are given
Order of events
The order in which events are taken place in
Flashback
It is when a scene is set in a time earlier than the main story
Withholding information
It is when you withhold information on purpose to make the reader continue reading
Dialogue
A conversation between 2 or more people
Contrast
A word to describe differences between two people
Opening hooks
Something that intrigues the reader right from the beginning.