Revision by mocks in January

Question 1

Proper noun

Answer 1

Particular places e.g. London

Question 2

Common noun

Answer 2

General term for things that are tangible, “chair” and “penguin”

Question 3

Concrete noun

Answer 3

Physical things that can be touched or measured

Question 4

Abstract noun

Answer 4

Ideas, emotions, times, qualities occasions e.g. fear

Question 5

Collective noun

Answer 5

Groups of people, animals or objects e.g. murder of crows

Question 6

Verb

Answer 6

Doing actions

Question 7

Adjective

Answer 7

Modifies a noun

Question 8

Attributive adjective

Answer 8

Before a noun

Question 9

Predicative adjective

Answer 9

After a noun

Question 10

Descriptive adjective

Answer 10

Describing the noun e.g. the black cat

Question 11

Evaluative adjective

Answer 11

Evaluates what the noun is e.g. the good dog

Question 12

Emotive adjective

Answer 12

Uses emotive words to describe noun e.g. the despairing child

Question 13

Adverb

Answer 13

Modifies a verb

Question 14

Preposition

Answer 14

Where something is (under, above)

Question 15

Determiners

Answer 15

A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has (a, an, the, every)

Question 16

Conjunction

Answer 16

A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (and, but, if)

Question 17

Personal pronoun

Answer 17

A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you, he, she)

Question 18

Repetition

Answer 18

When a word, phrase or topic is repeated

Question 19

Interrogative sentence

Answer 19

Sentence mood of a question

Question 20

Declarative sentence

Answer 20

Sentence mood that states something

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Imperative sentence

Answer 21

Sentence mood that orders something

Question 22

Exclamatory sentence

Answer 22

Sentence mood that shouts something e.g. that uses ‘!’

Question 23

Hyperbole

Answer 23

Exaggeration

Question 24

Adverb of manner

Answer 24

How things are done

Question 25

Adverb of time

Answer 25

When things are done

Question 26

Adverb of frequency

Answer 26

How often things are done

Question 27

Adverb of place

Answer 27

Where things are done

Question 28

Purpose

Answer 28

The purpose of the text

Question 29

Audience

Answer 29

The specific audience

Question 30

Form

Answer 30

What type of text it is e.g. if a letter it should contain address etc. at top left

Question 31

Expletives

Answer 31

swearing

Question 32

Superlative

Answer 32

The best form of something e.g. "smartest, bravest, shortest"

Question 33

Possessive pronoun

Answer 33

"Mine, yours, his"

Question 34

Interrogative pronoun

Answer 34

"Who, what, where"

Question 35

Metaphors

Answer 35

Describes one thing to describe another

Question 36

Simile

Answer 36

A simile is a comparison between two different things, designed to create an unusual, interesting, emotional or other effect often using words such as 'like' or 'as'

Question 37

Comparatives

Answer 37

Better than something else e.g. "taller, smaller, braver"

Question 38

Tense

Answer 38

Tense is used to show the relation between the action or state described by the verb and the time, two basic tenses in English; the present tense and the past tense.

Question 39

Dynamic verb

Answer 39

A verb in which involves movement

Question 40

Stative Verb

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A word that describes a state of being, "love" , "want", "hear"

Question 41

Auxiliary Verb

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A verb that has to used with another verb in order to create present participles or future tense, "DID you go?"

Question 42

Syntax

Answer 42

The way words form sentences (the ordering of them to create meaning)

Question 43

Parenthesis

Answer 43

An aside within the text , created by sectioning off extra information between brackets, dashes and commas.

Question 44

Rhetorical question

Answer 44

A question designed not to be answered. A choice of style.

Question 45

Hypophora

Answer 45

When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer from the text.

Question 46

Litote

Answer 46

Deliberately playing down something for effect.

Question 47

Patterning/ Parallelism

Answer 47

The creation of patterns in the text through repetition of words or phrases (phonological parallelism) or by balancing meaning (semantic parallelism) for deliberate effect.

Question 48

Tripling

Answer 48

Grouping in threes, either through repetition or structures.

Question 49

Imagery

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A descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture.

Question 50

Demonstrative Pronoun

Answer 50

"This, that, those"

Question 51

Attitudes

Answer 51

The attitude or opinions expressed within the text.

Question 52

Form

Answer 52

Structure and shape of the text.

Question 53

Colloquialism

Answer 53

Informal language used, "bloke" and "fella"

Question 54

Personification

Answer 54

Giving human qualities or actions to objects.

Question 55

Antithesis

Answer 55

Contrast

Question 56

Neologism

Answer 56

A newly created word.

Question 57

Orthography

Answer 57

The conventional spelling system of a language.