linguistic and literary features

Question 1

Abstract noun

Answer 1

A noun to describe things that have no physical qualities.

Question 2

Accent

Answer 2

Aset of distinctive pronunciations that mark regional or social identity.

Question 3

Active voice

Answer 3

A grammatical structure in which the subject is the actor of the sentence e.g the dog eats the bone.

Question 4

Adjective

Answer 4

A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

Question 5

Adverb

Answer 5

A word that modifies verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and prepositions.

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

The repetition of the same sound in the initial position in a sequence of words.

Question 7

Allusion

Answer 7

To refer to something indirectly or metaphorically

Question 8

Alternate rhyme

Answer 8

Lines of poetry where the rhyme is on every other line (abab)

Question 9

Anapest

Answer 9

Aunit of poetic meter containing two unstressed syllable’s followed by a stressed syllable –/

Question 10

Archaisms

Answer 10

A word or phrase no longer in current use.

Question 11

Aspirants

Answer 11

Sounds that denote audible breath e.g h

Question 12

Assonance

Answer 12

A repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds

Question 13

Asyndetic listing

Answer 13

The omission of co-ordinating conjunctions as a feature of rhetorical style.

Question 14

Attitudes

Answer 14

The opinions expressed in the text

Question 15

Auxiliary/modal verbs

Answer 15

A verb that precedes another verb e.g i can go

Question 16

Bilabials

Answer 16

Term used to denote sounds made with both lips e.g m,b

Question 17

Caesura

Answer 17

A mid-line pause

Question 18

Clause

Answer 18

A group of words usually with a finite verb which is structurally larger than a phrase

Question 19

Collective noun

Answer 19

A name that refers to a group of people, animals or things.

Question 20

Comment clause

Answer 20

A commonly occuring phrase in speech e.g ‘you know’

Question 21

Common/Concrete

Answer 21

A name for every day objects

Question 22

Complex sentence

Answer 22

A sentence made up of one main and one or more subordinate or dependent clauses

Question 23

Compound sentence

Answer 23

A sentence made up of at least two main clauses joined together by a co-ordinating conjunction

Question 24

Conceit

Answer 24

A deliberately elaborate metaphor

Question 25

Connotations

Answer 25

the associations attached to a word in addition to its dictionary definition

Question 26

Content

Answer 26

what the text is about

Question 27

Context

Answer 27

Things outside the text which may shape its meaning e.g when it was written, and who wrote it

Question 28

Co-ordinating conjunction

Answer 28

A word that joins elements of equal rank (and, or, but)

Question 29

Couplet

Answer 29

A two line verse (often rhyming)

Question 30

Dactyl

Answer 30

A unit of poetic meter containing one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable /--

Question 31

Declarative mood

Answer 31

A mood used to express a statement

Question 32

Deictic

Answer 32

Terms used to denote words that rely on the context to be understood e.g pass me that, there.

Question 33

Dynamic verbs

Answer 33

A verb that expresses an action rather than a state

Question 34

Elision

Answer 34

The omission of sounds an action rather than a state

Question 35

Enjambment

Answer 35

Run-on lines

Question 36

Exclamatory mood

Answer 36

A mood that expresses strong emotions

Question 37

Fillers

Answer 37

Words used when hesitating in speech, um, er

Question 38

Foregrounding

Answer 38

A change in the structure of the sentence to place emphasis on an opening sentence element.