Language Terms / Techniques Flashcards
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Define Onomatopoeia and give examples:
A word that imitates a sound
E.g. Bang, Splish Splash, thudding
Define a verb and give examples:
A doing or being word which has a tense.
E.g. I swam across a lake
Define a modal verb and give examples:
A verb that expresses necessity or possibility
E.g. Must, shall, will, would, can
Define a adverb and give examples:
A word that describes and modifies a verb
E.g. Cautiously, gracefully, happily, quickly, loudly…
Define adjective and give examples:
A word that describes a noun (place, person or thing)
E.g. A popular film, the tallest tower, the biggest maze.
Define a pronoun, common noun a proper noun and give examples:
a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ).
Describe a collective noun and give examples:
A noun that is a group of things,
E.g. Team, group, crew
Define a concrete noun and give examples:
Concrete noun is a noun that can be experienced through your five senses
E.g. Food, salt, cat
Define a abstract noun and give examples:
Cannot be experienced with your senses
E.g. Love, power, freedom
Define a phrase:
A group of words that can be understood as a unit.
Define a clause:
A type of phrase that includes a subject and an active verb.
Define an alliteration and give example:
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words to create effect.
E.g. Great goal
Define a personification and give examples:
When you give human characteristics to something thats not human.
Define foreshadowing:
An indication or warning that something is going to happen in the future.
Pathetic fallacy
The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals.
What is a colloquial?
language that is used in speech with an informal meaning; ‘chill’, ‘out of this world’, ‘take a rain check’.
What is a hyperbole?
exaggerating something for literary purposes which is not meant to be taken literally; we gorged on the banquet of beans on toast.
Define irony
the humorous or sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean.
Define a metaphor
a word or phrase used to imply figurative, not literal or ‘actual’, resemblance; he flew into the room.
Define what a monologue is?
a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme.
Define a oxymoron
Where two words normally not associated are brought together: ‘cold heat’ ‘bitter sweet’.
Define a simile
a phrase which establishes similarity between two things to emphasise the point being made. This usually involves the words ‘like’ or ‘as’; ‘he is as quick as an arrow in flight’, ‘as white as snow’, ‘like a burning star’.
Define what symbolism is
the use of symbols to represent
ideas or qualities.
Define what a motif is
a pattern or recurring idea in an artistic work
