Flashcards in Language Terms/ Technique. Deck (34):
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Adjective
A word describing a noun (sweet)
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Verb
A word that describes an action (run)
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Noun
a word used to identify any of a class place or thing
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Pronoun
A word that can function as a noun phrase by itself
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Pathetic fallacy
Pathetic fallacy is when an author gives human emotions and traits to nature or inanimate objects. It is often used when describing weather.
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Foreboding
A feeling that something bad will happen (as the hurricane neared the residents of the hotel started to feel a sense of foreboding)
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Dramatic irony
Dramatic irony is a form of irony that is expressed through a work's structure: an audience's awareness of the situation and the characters ignorance to it (for example Othello says truthful Iago even though he's tricking Othello and the audience knows it)
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Phrase
A phrase is a small group of words that adds meaning to a sentence. A phrase is not a sentence because it is not a complete idea with a subject and a verb
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Abstract noun
A noun denoting an idea, quality or state (danger
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Concrete noun
Is a noun that is identified through one of the five sentences (gas)
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Proper noun
A name used for an individual place, person or company (Pepsi).
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Main clause
A clause that can make a whole sentence (he sat on a rug)
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Protagonist
A leading character in a play, film or book.
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Antagonist
A person who actively opposes someone or something.
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Monologue
A long speech by one person
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Hyperbole
An over exaggeration of one thing ( I'm so hungry i could eat a horse).
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Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (falsely true).
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Colloquial
Used in ordinary or familiar conversation
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Superlative
Expressing the highest or very high degree of a quality.(bravest)
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Subordinate clause
Forms part of and is dependent if a main clause. (When it rang)
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Imagery
similes, metaphors and personification; they all compare something 'real' with something 'imagined'.
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Enjambment
a device used in poetry where a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse. This technique is often used to maintain a sense of continuation from one stanza to another.
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Irony
the humorous or sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean.
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Pathos
language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow.
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Motif
a pattern or recurring idea in an artistic work.
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Symbolism
the use of symbols to represent ideas or
qualities.
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Connotations
The underlying ideas and feelings suggested by a word
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Evaluation
A judgement about the value of something.
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Pace
The speed at which the story takes place
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Verb
A 'doing' or action word e.g. "ran", "laughed" and "screamed"
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Slang
Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group.
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Jargon
special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
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Narrative writing
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.
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