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Literacy terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acronym | A word composed of initial letters/syllables of a phrase or organisation, e.g ANZAC, NCEA |
| Active Voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action, e.g The dog but the postman (passive voice: the postman was bitten by the dog.) |
| Allegory | A story in the verse or prose on two levels, e.g Pilgrim's Progress, Animal Farm, The Lion the Which and the Wardrobe. |
| Alliterration | Repetition of initial letters |
| Antonym | A word of opposite meaning |
| Archaism | Outdated words, e.g 'thou' 'art' |
| Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds, e.g please leave theese |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter most commonly found in Shakespeare. |
| Caesura | Pause mid-line poetry, e.g 'I knew you in this dark: for you so frowned |
| Cliche | Overused saying |
| Colloquial | Informal language or slang, e.g whatever, LOL, gutted |
| Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds with different vowels in between, e.g reaper/riper, hearer/horror, slip/slop/slap |
| Dialect | Words and accents that belong to a region |
| Enjambement | A run-on line in poetry, e.g I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills |
| Euphemism | A polite way of saying something |
| Eye Of God | Omniscient or all-seeing third person narrative, The narrator shows the characters inner thoughts and feelings. e.g He was a tall man, and he was proud of it. |
| Fable | Story or poem in which animals take place as humans, usually with a moral, e.g The Little Red Hen, The Hare and the Tortoise |
| Figurative Language | Based on comparisons or imagery (word pictures), e.g similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, idiom ect. |
| Formal Language | Proper, formal language. |
| Genre | A from of literature, e.g short story, novel, fiction. |
| Homonym | Words which are spelt the same but mean different things, e.g wind/wind, minute/minute, close/close |
| Homophone | Words that sound the same but mean different things, e.g which/witch, meat/meet, whether/weather |
| Hyperbole | A gross exaggeration |
| Informal Language | Language that sounds hoedy e.g wats up au?, chur cussie brew |
| Literal | the actual meaning of something |
| Metaphor | direct comparison e.g the lake is a mirror |
| Minor Sentences | Incomplete sentences that can still be understood, e.g Going to Takapau this weekend? |
| Mneumonic | A memory aid, e.g Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants = Because |
| Monologue | A one way conversation |
| Onomatopoeia | The sound of the word suggests its meaning, e.g crack, buzz thud |
| Parable | Bible story with a moral, e.g The Good Samartian |
| Parody | The style of another's work is imitated, usually for humor, e.g Bored of the Rings |
| Passive Voice | The subject pf the sentence is acted upon, most common in formal language e.g The postman was bitten by the dog |
| Personification | Giving non-human objects human characteristics |
| Proverb | A short saying, in common use and is often metaphorical of traditional, e.g People who live in a glass house shouldn't throw stones / A stitch in time saves nine |
| Pun | Play on words, e.g Who invented the round table?- Sir Cumference / To write with a broken pencil is pointless |
| Repetition | Repeating words or phrases |
| Rhetorical Question | A question that doesn't require an answer |
| Rhythm | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, often in poetry. |
| Sarcasm | Bitter, wounding remarks that are often the opposite of what is really meant. |
| Smilie | Indirect comparison using like, as , or than e.g My love is like a red rose |
| Soliloquy | Speech when alone on stage. Usually indicated thoughts or feelings- very important in Shakespeare, e.g Is this a dagger I see before me... |
| Stream Of Consciousness | Supposedly random flow of thoughts of characters in fiction, often disjointed and difficult to follow |
| Style | All aspects of how a piece of literature is said or written (the individual flavor of the writer) |
| Superlatives | The extreme comparison comparison of an adjective, e.g best, greatest, biggest. |
| Symbolism | Where something represents something else, e,g a cross- religion; dawn, a new beginning |
| Synonym | A word of similar meaning, e.g small/little, hard/difficult |
| Verbal Contractions | Combining words using apostrophes, e.g I'll, she's, don't |
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