Glossary Terms

Question 1

adjective

Answer 1

a describing word

e.g. red, evil

Question 2

alliteration

Answer 2

effect created when words that are next to each or nearly next to each other begin with the same letter
e.g. terrible twins

Question 3

bias

Answer 3

weighting a text in favour of one side of the argumetn

Question 4

characterisation

Answer 4

how an author presents and develops their characters

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clause

Answer 5

a group of words in a sentence which express a single idea

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comedy

Answer 6

a Shakespearean play with a happy ending

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complex sentence

Answer 7

a sentence with one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses

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compound sentence

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a sentence made up of 2 or more simple sentences linked by ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘or’.

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connective

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a word or phrase which links clauses and sentences, to signal to the audience where the text is going

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direct address

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using the second person (‘you’) to hold the reader’s attention in a text

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emotive language

Answer 11

words, phrases or ideas designed to make the audience understand why or how something is as it is

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formal language

Answer 12

writing or speech that follows the strictest rules of Standard English

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imagery

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the use of language to create and image or a picture

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informal language

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language that doesn’t follow the rules of Standard English

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metaphor

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a type of imagery that describes something as something else

e.g. ‘you are an island’

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motivation

Answer 16

why a character behaves as he or she does

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person

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a way of referring to pronouns and verbs according to whether they indicate the speaker/writer (1st person: ‘I’, ‘we’), the audience (2nd person: ‘you’) or someone else (3rd person: ‘s/he’, ‘it’, ‘they’)

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personification

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the type of imagery which refers to objects as if they were human
e.g. the sun punished them

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phrase

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a group of words that go together

e.g. the garden gate

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plot

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the story line

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purpose

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the aim of a text

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rhetorical question

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a question asked for effect, not for an answer

Question 23

rhetorical technique

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a technique used to persuade the audience

e.g. emotive language, sound effects, repetition, rhetorical questions

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romance

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a Shakespearean play that mixes elements of tragedy and comedy

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simile

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a type of imagery which compares something with something else, making the comparison clear by using a phrase such as ‘like’; or ‘as if’
e.g. she swam like a fish

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tone

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a measure of the quality, mood or style of a piece of writing

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theme

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the underlying ideas or issues that a story or play deals with

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tragedy

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a Shakespearean play with an unhappy ending

Question 29

verb

Answer 29

a word that refers to an action or a state of being

e.g. ‘runs’ or ‘feels’