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What is a Noun?
A noun is a word we use to name a person, place, a thing or an idea. Example: chair, pen, book, France, Tuesday, Sarah
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What is a Verb?
A verb is a "doing" or "action" word. The tense of the verb shows when the action happened. Example: When he BROKE the window, he FELT unhappy
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What is an adjective?
An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun. Example: The tall lady reached for the green bottle
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What is an adverb?
This is a word used to modify (give further information about) a verb, another adverb or an adjective. Example: The VERY large choir sang LOUDLY
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What is a pronoun?
This is used in place of a noun. Example: He gave HER a bar of soap. IT was scented.
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What is a determiner?
A word that goes before a noun to help specify which or how much or many of the noun. Example: I go there EVERY day. SOME people have no sense.
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What is a preposition?
A preposition identifies the relationship between one noun or pronoun and another. Example: The book was UNDER the newspaper, ON the table. The bird flew OVER the house.
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What is a conjunction?
Conjunctions (also known as connectives) connect phrases to form longer sentences. Example: I tried so hard, BUT i could not do it. Tom broke the glass, the plate AND the saucer.
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What is an interjection?
This is an exclamation and is used to express feeling. Example: OUCH! I've stubbed my toe.
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What is alliteration?
A number of words within a phrase starting with the same letter; can create pass, can make a word or phrase stand out in a persuasive way. Creates emphasis on certain words and lines
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What is a Rhyme?
A rhyme is when words sound similar (endings), this allows flow and can also mirror a place
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What are rhyming couplets?
Rhyming couplets can represent love/ emotions, they can also add a childlike tone or mocking tone. Can be effective in a slogan
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What is enjambement?
Where lines lack punctuation at the end of them so they run onto the next line; creates confusion, forces you to pick up the pace when reading- which emphasises a panic effete on the reader.
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What is assonance?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry
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What is Caesura?
A strong pause within a line of verse, often done with the use of punctuation; adds pace to the piece which forces you to take pauses regularly, which can add to a slow depressed feeling for the reader
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What is a hyperbole?
A figure of speech involving exaggeration, something often not meant to be taken literally, and over exaggeration
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What is a metaphor?
A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as, can be used in poems or catchy slogans, can sometimes be funny which could be used in pun titles.
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What is onomatopoeia?
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic.
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What is tone in poetry?
Tone is the feeling that the speaker has about the subject, this can contribute to the context of the matter that the author was talking about
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What is characterisation?
This means by which the writer presents and reveals the characters, Literary characters may be major or minor, static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change).
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What does foreshadowing mean?
Foreshadowing is when the author hints to the reader what is going to happen later in either the play, book or poem (often not used in poetry though)
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What is personification?
Personification is the technique that a writer uses to give an object or thing human features and characteristics.
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What is a stanza?
A stanza is a verse of a poem
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