TeKNeek Flashcards

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Simile

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A comparasion where one thing is compared to another

Eg. The lions roar was as loud as a jet engine

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Metaphor

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A comparasion where one thing is said actually to be another

Eg. The exploding sun rise

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Personification

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When you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn’t human or isn’t alive

Eg. The rolling hills

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same sound at the begining of words to create effect

Eg. The green grass grew

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that imitates a sound

Raored

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Pattern of three

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Listing three things to create a specific effect

Eg. Catch, look, pass

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Language for emotive effect

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Words and phrases deliberatly used to provoke a specific amotional reaction

Eg. The helpless rhinos where poached

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Rhetorical question

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A question that is aksed for effect rather than for an answer

Eg. How old are you? (In anger)

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Adjective

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A word to describe a place, person or thing

Eg. The fast rabbit

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Verb

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A doing or being verb that has a tense

Eg. Last night, I jogged for an hour

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Phrase

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A group of words that can be understood as a unit

Eg. Across the road

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Clause

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A type of phrase that includes a subject and an active verb

Eg. Because he was young

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Simple sentence

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The most basic form of a sentence

Eg. He ran

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Compound sentence

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A sentence that contains two independent clasues joined by a coordinating conjuction, such as “for”

Eg. My mum was shopping but I was playing

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Complex sentence

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A sentence that has a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses

Eg. The dunk man who had drank a few pints crossed the road

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Punctuation

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Marks used to aid the understanding of a piece of writing. Writers can use punctuation imaginatively to create an effect.

Eg. She was nice, pretty and kind

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Dialogue

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A conversation between two or more characters

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Flashback

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A section in the text that is set before the main events of the story

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Future tense

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A verb that describes something that is going to happen in the future

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Narrator

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The person who tells the story

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Past tense

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A verb that describes something that happened in the past

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Point of view

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The way a character regards events or people

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Present tense

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A verb that is describing that is happening now

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Sequence

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The order in which things happen

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Setting
Where the events take place
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Stucture
The organization of the text
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Narrative
A written story or account
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Narrative voice
The person telling the story from their point of view
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Perspective
A particular view of something
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Structural feature
A feature that helps structure the text
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Empathize
To understand and share someone else's feelings
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Plot
The events in a story
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Atmosphere
Mood
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Bathos
An absupt transition in stule from the exalted to commonplace, producing a humorous effect
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Synthesize
Produce something that has been blended together from different sources
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Summarize
To give the main points of something, briefly
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Interpret
Explain the meaning of something in your own words, showing your understanding
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Non-fiction
Writing that is factual rather than fictional or made up
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Implied
Suggested