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English Language
English Languag GCSE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bias | Inclination towards or prejudice against a person or group. |
| Climax | The most exciting or intense part of a text. |
| Genre | The type of story being told |
| Hamartia | A fatal flaw leading to a downfall for a hero |
| Justice | Getting the morally right or legally correct outcome |
| Monologue | A speech by one person or character |
| Antagonist | Someone who actively opposes someone or is hostile. |
| Moral | A lesson that comes from experience |
| Protagonist | The leading character or one of the major characters |
| Semantic field | A group of words that have a common theme or link. |
| Tone | The mood / feel of the writing often expressing the (inner) thoughts or feelings of a character or text. |
| Verb | An action, state or occurrence |
| Noun | The name of a person, place or thing. |
| Abstract noun | The name of a person, place or thing which cannot be picked up. |
| Adjective | A descriptive word relating to a noun. |
| Adverb | A word which describes how an action is done |
| Pronoun | A word in the place of a noun |
| High angle | From high up, looking down |
| Low angle | From low down, looking up |
| Long shot, establishing shot | A shot showing the whole, large setting. |
| Zoom in | A close up view - magnifying the focus on something |
| Zoom out | A view from a distance |
| Similarity | Also, additionally, moreover, furthermore, in addition |
| Contrast | However, in contrast, alternatives, conversely, on the other hand |
| Repetition | Using the same word more than once, to draw attention to a theme or important idea. |
| Personification | Giving something which is non-human a human characteristic to infer/hint information |
| Onomatopoeia | Word producing the sound that it describes, often to increase the complexity of the description. |
| Imagery | Describing something so the reader can clearly picture it visually in the mind's eye. |
| Simile | Comparing to (usually unalike) things, using 'like / as' |
| Alliteration | Starting two or more words in a sequence with the same letter sound. |
| Metaphor | Comparing two things, saying it IS something else. |
| Hyperbole | A form or dramatic exaggeration |
| Oxymoron | A phrase using words which appear logically incompatible (don't go together normally) |
| Denouement | tying up the loose ends of a story |
| motif | A dominant or repeated theme. |
| narrative perspective | The viewpoint that a text is written from |
| Symbolism | when a symbol is used to suggest something else, beyond the literal meaning. (straightforward obvious meaning of the word.) |
| Semantic field | A set of words sharing a common theme or subject. |
| Syntax | How words and phrases are arranged in a sentence. |
| Comma | A pause, and a way to layer information in a sentence. |
| Question mark | A way to raise uncertainty and to punctuate a question. |
| rhetorical question | A question that is unanswered, but which implies its own answer in the reader's mind. |
| exclamation mark | A punctuation mark to suggest surprise, anger or other strong emotions. |
| colon | : punctuation which links what goes before and after it, but the part that comes before can be an independent phrase. |
| semi-colon | ; to connect two independent phrases without using 'and', 'but' or 'or' |
| brackets / parenthesis | Indicating information which is less important that the rest of the sentence, |
| Paragraph breaks | TiPTopTime, place, topic, person |
| Preposition | location words like above, below. |
| Focal point | What your eye rests on first when looking at a picture. |
| linear | A story which develops sequentially. |
| Cyclical | starting and ending at the same place |
| chronological | Information ordered according to the progress of time. |
| antithesis | technique where opposing words or ideas are presented together to emphasise the contrast between them |
| Assonance | words with similar vowel sounds but different consonants - 'they play in the waves' |
| Cliffhanger | when a text ends in a dramatic way that introduces a new idea or plot |
| colloquial | informal language |
| context | the setting or background |
| counter-argument | putting the opposite view to the writer's own view, often to persuade someone |
| emotive language | language used to have an emotional effect on the reader |
| explicit information | Information which is clearly stated in the text |
| Figuarative language | language which is non-literal used for literary effect like personification |
| First person | using I / we in a text |
| Flashback | a technique where the scene shifts from present to the past - often to help reveal key information about the character. |
| Foreshadowing | giving a hint about what will happen later |
| imagery | figurative language to create a picture in the mind. |
| Implicit information | information which is hinted at, or suggested... but not made obvious. You have to infer its meaning. |
| Inference | concluding something from the evidence |
| irony | saying one thing, but meaning the opposite! |
| juxtaposition | when two contrasting things are placed near eachother in a text. |
| linear structure | when a story is told in chronological order |
| group / list of 3 | using three words in a sequence to create emphasis |
| objective writing | neutral or unbiased writing |
| subjective writing | presenting a particular point of view |
| paradox | a statement which contradicts itself |
| pathetic fallacy | when the weather is given human characteristics |
| register | matching your language to the social situation - formal or informal / colloquial |
| sibilance | repeating sounds like 's' and 'sh' to create hissing or shushing effects |
| slang | informal words used by particular age groups or social groups |
| structure | the order or arrangement of a text. |
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