English Language Vocabulary

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  • Created on: 28-10-17 19:34

Words for Inference

  • connotes
  • expresses
  • illustrates
  • implies
  • indicates
  • insinuates
  • intimates
  • represents
  • reveals
  • shows
  • signifies
  • suggests
  • symbolises
  • typifies
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Words for describing Image & Atmosphere

  • constructs
  • creates
  • develops
  • devises
  • encapsulates
  • epitomises
  • establishes
  • outlines

The dark clouds constucts an image of sadness, and as a consequence of this imagery, the readers interest is piqued.

The author encapsulates a tense environment by the contant repetition of 'anger' and 'hate,' creating an unsettling feeling in the reader's mind.

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Words for Comparison

  • alludes
  • contradicts
  • contrasts
  • develops
  • juxtaposes
  • opposes
  • refers
  • reinforces
  • supports
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Adverbs of Clarity

  • chiefly
  • especially
  • inherently
  • markedly
  • notably
  • particularly
  • predominantly
  • prinipally
  • prominently
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Adverbs of Nuance

  • arguably
  • conceivably
  • feasibly
  • perhaps
  • possibly
  • potentially
  • rationally
  • reasonably
  • seemingly
  • viably
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Adverbs and Adverbials of Summary

  • essentially
  • in summary
  • in summation
  • ostensibly
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Adverbs of Assurance

  • absolutely
  • certainly
  • characteristically
  • crucially
  • evidently
  • obviously
  • positively
  • typically
  • unquestionably
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Adverbs to Sequence

  • firstly
  • initially
  • later
  • originally
  • primarily
  • secondly
  • subsequently
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Adverbs to Compare and Contrast

  • comparatively
  • correspondingly
  • equally
  • intrinsically
  • similarly
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Word classes/parts of Speech

  • adjective
  • adverb
  • article
  • abstract noun
  • determiner
  • noun
  • object
  • past participle
  • present participle
  • pronoun
  • proper noun
  • subject
  • verb
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Sentence and Sentence parts

  • adverbial
  • clause
  • dependent clause
  • past participle phrase
  • phrase
  • present participle phrase
  • relative clause
  • sentence
  • subordinate clause
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Language Devices (1)

  • 1st/2nd/3rd person             
  • active voice
  • allegory
  • alliteration
  • allusion
  • anecdote 
  • assonance
  • cliche
  • consonance
  • contrasting pair
  • direct address
  • emotive language
  • epilogue
  • euphemism
  • hyperbole
  • iambic pentameter/tetrameter
  • imagery 
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Language Devices (2)

  • imperative
  • irony
  • juxtaposition
  • lexical/semantic field
  • metaphor
  • modal verb
  • nomenclature
  • omniscient
  • oxymoron
  • passive voice
  • pathetic fallacy
  • personification
  • prologue
  • rhetorical question
  • rhyme
  • rhythm
  • sibilance
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Language Devices (3)

  • simile
  • stanza
  • statistic
  • symbolism
  • triplets
  • verse
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Structural Devices

  • act
  • anaphora
  • book-ending
  • caesura
  • catalyst
  • chapter
  • chronological
  • conclusion
  • critical/pivitol moment
  • deductive
  • denoument
  • ellipsis
  • enjambment
  • exposition
  • foreshadowing
  • inductive
  • introduction
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Structural Devices (2)

  • paragraph
  • perspective
  • precurser
  • repetition
  • rising action
  • scene
  • topic sentence
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Language of Genre and Context (1)

  • anti-hero
  • architype
  • autobiography
  • biography
  • capitalism
  • comedy
  • depression
  • diversity
  • fable
  • fatal flaw
  • feminism
  • fiction/historical fiction
  • horror
  • immigration
  • legend
  • magical realism
  • Marxism
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Language of Genre and Context (2)

  • myth
  • neogilism
  • non-fiction
  • politics
  • protagonist
  • romance
  • satire
  • socialism
  • tragedy
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High level and nuance vocabulary

  • catastrophic
  • detrimental
  • futile
  • hubris
  • insidious
  • perpetrator
  • terse
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