Section A Flashcards
(28 cards)
What is imagery?
A general term for descriptive language that helps the reader to imagine something that’s is being written about
What is a Metaphor?
A form of imagery where one thing is described as being something else
What is a simile?
A form of imagery where one thing is described as being similar to something else, using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’
What is Personification?
A form of imagery where a non-living object is described using human actions, features or emotions
What is colour imagery?
Use of colours to form part of a description
What is an adjective?
Words that describe what a person, place, thing or emotion is like
What is a rhetorical question?
A question posed to the audience which requires them to think about there own answer or response
What is a semantic field?
A group of words that belong to the same topic area / theme
What is an imperative?
A direct command, formed with the verb as the first word
What is a verb?
Words that name actions or states of being. Every sentence must contain at least one
What are modal verbs?
Words which indicate possibility or permission: can / could / must / may / might / shall / should / will / would
What is allusion?
A reference to something outside of the text e.g. a literary work, mythological figure, advertising slogan etc.
What does establish mean?
to set up or introduce a topic / setting / character at the beginning
What does develop mean ?
to build up details about a topic / setting / character within a text
What is a cyclical structure?
when the ending of a text reflects the start
What is contrast?
present things that are opposite to each other.
What does chronological mean?
in time order (e.g. a chronological story structure = told in the order which it happened
What is a flashback?
When a story goes back in time to a moment in a characters past.
What is a zoom in?
to move from a broad, general description to a more specific area
What is a zoom out ?
to move from a small focus area to a broader, more general description
What are internal thoughts?
Access to the characters inner personal thoughts and feelings; being metaphorically ‘in the characters head’
What is external action/description?
Description of things that are happening in the outside world of the character; things that a person in the characters world would be able to perceive
What is a dual perspective?
a story told from two different narrative viewpoints / two different characters experiences
What are links back?
when an idea in the text reminds us of something that read earlier in the piece
