Lang Terms And Tech

Question 1

Onomatopoeia

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Words which represent the sound or action being described.

Question 2

Verb

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A word which is an action of a thing or person

Question 3

Adjective

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A word used to describe the characteristics or attributes of something

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Adverbs

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A word which describes the way the verb is excecuted

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Noun

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A item, thing or person

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Pathetic fallacy

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When weather is used to portray the emotion in the scene

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Personification

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When something which isn’t human is described with features usually associated with a human to bring it or its action life

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Common noun

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a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual.

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Proper noun

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a name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with an initial capital letter, e.g. Jane, London, and Oxfam.

Question 10

Personal pronoun

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each of the pronouns in English ( I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them ) comprising a set that shows contrasts of person, gender, number, and case.

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Modal verb

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an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility. English modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might.

Question 12

Abstract noun

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A word which is a feeling or something which isn’t physical or a actual object. Eg love.

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

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Juxtaposition

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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. Eg “isn’t it “

Question 15

Phrase

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A phrase is a group or words that express a concept and is used as a unit within a sentence. Eight common types of phrases are: noun, verb, gerund, infinitive, appositive, participial, prepositional, and absolute.

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Clause

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A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb.

Question 17

Collective noun

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a count noun that denotes a group of individuals (e.g. assembly, family, crew ).

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Concrete noun

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Concrete nouns are things that you can experience through your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. On the other hand, abstract nouns refer to ideas and concepts.

Question 19

Alliterarion

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The first letter of a word is repeated in the words that follow; the cold, crisp, crust of clean, clear ice.

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Colliquial

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Language that is used in speech with an informal meaning; ‘chill’, ‘out of this world’, ‘take a rain check’.

Question 21

Dialect

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The version of language spoken by particular people in a particular area such as Scots.

Question 22

Dissonance

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A discordant combination of sounds; clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves against the quay.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerating something for literary purposes which is not meant to be taken literally; we gorged on the banquet of beans on toast.

Question 24

Imagery

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Similes, metaphors and personification; they all compare something ‘real’ with something ‘imagined’.

Question 25

Pathos

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Language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow.

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Assonance

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The same vowel around is repeated but the consonants are different; he passed her a sharp, dark glance, shot a cool, foolish look across the room.

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Dialogue

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Conversation between two people; sometimes an imagined conversation between the narrator and the reader.

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Irony

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The humorous or sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean.

Question 29

Dramatic irony

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theatre) the irony occurring when the implications of a situation, speech, etc, are understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

Question 30

Pace

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The speed at which something happens in a text

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Empathize

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To understand and share someone else feelings.

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Third person perspective

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Point of view using he, she or they

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First person perspective

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You feel more involved in text and empathize with the character

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Motif

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A pattern or recurring work in an artistic idea

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Symbolism

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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

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Connotations

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The underlying ideas and feelings suggested by a word

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Evaluation

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A judgement about the value of something

Question 38

Narrator

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The person who tells the story

Question 39

Slang

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Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group.

Question 40

Jargon

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Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.

Question 41

Descriptive writing

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The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind. Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all of your five senses.

Question 42

Narrative writitng

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A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both.