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What is tone?

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The feeling created by the tex

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What does tone do?

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Create a mood, shows attitude of the writer

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How can you identify tone?

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By looking at language

By looking at punctuation

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What is style?

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How the text is written

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What does style include?

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Language choices, sentence forms, structure

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What is register?

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The specific language used to match the social situation

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What do words and phrases achieve?

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Different effects

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What are connotations?

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When a word has a different meaning than the one implied.

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What are semantic fields?

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Words used for effect

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What is cumulative effect?

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How words work together to create tone or affect the reader

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What is figurative language?

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Words and phrases used in a non literal way

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Types of figurative language?

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Metaphors, similes, personification, analogies

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What does alliteration do?

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Grabs the readers attention

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What do onomatopoeias do

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Makes sentences more powerful, appeals to sense of hearing.

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What is irony?

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When the literal meaning is the opposite of what is meant

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How can you tell irony?

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By context

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What is irony used for?

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To express viewpoint, o make things humorous or light hearted.

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Types of irony?

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Dramatic, situational, verbal.

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What is sarcasm?

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Language that is mocking or scornful.

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What is sarcasm used for?

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To insult or make fun of someone.

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What can sarcasm show?

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That the writer is upset or angry.

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What is satire?

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Words used to make fun of a particular person or thing.

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What does rhetoric do?

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Makes language more persuasive.

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What is bias?

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Writing that doesn’t give a balanced view

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What does bias involve
Not mentioning something that opposes their argument | Exaggerating something that supports their argument.
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What are possessive determiners
My, your, our
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What do possessive determiners do
Create familiarity between reader and writer
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What can verbs be used for
Changing emotion depending on the word chosen
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What are intensifiers
Makes writing more emotive and powerful
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Where are intensifiers used
Alongside adjectives to make writing more emphasised
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What is an analogy
Compares one idea to another, to make it easier to understand.
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What are analogies used for?
To be powerful and memorable, to shockthe reader
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What is dramatic irony
When the audience knows key info that the character doesn’t know
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What is situational irony
When the actual result is different from the expected result
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What is verbal irony
When the speakers intention is opposite to what they said
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What else can irony be used for
To invert expectations, to create unexpected twists.
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Types of rhetorical?
Questions, lists of three, hyperbole, antithesis, parenthesis
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WhT are rhetorical questions used for
To make the reader engage with text, makes reader realise answers themselves, makes reader feel like they’re coming up with the answers on their own instead of being influenced.
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What are lists of three used for
Emphasises the point they’re making
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What is a hyperbole
Intentional exaggeration
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What is hyperbole used for
Used to powerfully make a point.
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What is an antithesis
Opposing words thrown together to show contrast.
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What is Parenthesis
When an extra clause or phrase is added to an already complete sentence
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What is parenthesis used for
To add extra intro or to address the reader
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Different types of text?
Expository, persuasive, narrative, descriptive
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What is expository writing?
Used to explain something. Full of facts/figures. In logical order or sequence
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What types of writing use expository language.
Textbooks, news articles, business articles
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What is descriptive writing?
Describes characters, events, places or situations. Author visualises what they see, hear, smell, feel and taste
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What writing is descriptive language used
Poetry, fiction
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What is persuasive writing?
Used to convince. Contains opinions and biases, justifications and reasons. Author asks you to agree or to do something.
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When is persuasive writing used
Opinion articles, advertisements, reviews, recommendations, complaints
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What is narrative writing?
Main purpose is to tell a story. Has characters and dialogues. Has beginnings, middles and ends.
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When is narrative writing used
Novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, auto biography’s, biographies
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What are nouns
Naming words. Refer to people, places, things and ideas
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What are pronouns
A word that replaces a noun.
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What are possessive pronouns
Pronouns that show ownership eg his/hers
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What are verbs
Action (doing) words
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What are adjectives
Describes nouns or pronouns
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What are adverbs
Give extra info about a verb
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What is assonance
The resemblance of sounds of syllables of nearby words The rhyming of two or more stressed vowels as in: gO, mOW, enginEER, stEER.
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What is consonance
The repetition of consonants.
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What are puns
Exploits words with multiple or ambiguous meanings. Words that sound or are spelt the same but have different meanings or words that mean the same but look different.
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What is allegory
Can be used in story, picture or poem A type of extended metaphor that uses character, place or event to represent real world events. Often said to have hidden or underlining meanings
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What is a parable
A short, concise story that is based on everyday life occurrences which attempts to convey a more abstract moral or spiritual lesson
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Fable
Similar to parable but uses animals, planets or inanimate objects

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