GCSE English Techniques

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Alliteration
When words that are close together start with the same letter.
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Ambiguity
Where a word or phrase has two or more possible interpretations.
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Analogy
A comparison to show how one thing is similar to another, which makes it easier to understand. E.g. The human brain is like a super computer.
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Antithesis
A rhetoricl technique where opposing words r ideas are put together to show a constrast.
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Aside
When a character in a play makes a short comment that reveals their thoughts to the audience and no other character can hear it.
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Assonance
When words share the same vowel sound but their consonants are different.
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Autobiographical
Describing something that happened in the writer's life.
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Biased writing
Writing that gives more support to one point of view rather than the other.
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Blank Verse
Lines from a play or poem that are written in iambic pentameter and don't rhyme.
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Broadsheet
A formal type of newspaper, which often focuses on more serious topic.
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Caesura
A pause in a line of poetry.
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Chronological
When events are arranged in the order in which they happened.
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Cinematic Writing
Writing that makes the reader fell like they're watching a film.
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Clause
Part of a setence that has a subject and a verb.
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Colloquial Language
Informal language that sounds like ordinary speech.
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Commentary (Newspaper Article)
A type of newspaper article that expresses the opinions of the writing on a theme or new event.
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Complex Sentence
A sentence that contains one or more subordinate clauses.
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Compound Sentence
Two main claauses joined to make one sentence using a conjunction.
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Connotations
The suggestions that words can make beyond their obvious meaning.
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Consonance
Repetition of a consonant sound in nearby words.
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Context
The background to something or the suitation surrounding a text.
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Counter-arguement
The opposite point of view to the writer's own view.
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Double Negative
A sentence which incorrectly expresses a negative idea using two negative words or phrases.
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Dramatic Monologue
A form of poetry that uses the assumed voice of a single speaker who is not the poet to address an implied audience.
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Emotive
Something that makes you feel a particular emotion.
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Empathy
The ability to imagine and understand someone else's feelings or experiences.
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End-stopping
Finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence, usually marked by punctuation.
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Enjambment
When a sentence or phrase runs over from one lin or stanza to the next.
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Explicit Information
Information that's directly stated in a text.
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Figurative Language
Language that is used in a non-literal way to create an effect.
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First Person
A narrative viewpoint where the narrator is one of the characters.
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Flashback
A writing technique where the scene shifts from the present to an event in the past.
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Foreshadowing
A literary device where a writer hints or gives clues about a future event.
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Frame Narrative
A narrative in which one story is presented within another.
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Free Verse
Poetry that doesn't rhyme and has no regular rhythm or line length.
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Generalisation
A statement that gives an overall impression without going into the details.
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Half-Rhymes
Words that have a similar, but not identical, end sound.
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Hyperbole
When exaggeration is used to have an effect on the reader.
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Iambic Pentameter
Poetry with a metre of ten syllables, five of them stressed the other five unstressed on every second syllable.
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Imagery
Language that creates a picture in your mind.
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Imperative verb
A verb that gives orders or directions.
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Impersonal Tone
A tone of writing that doesn't try to directly engage with the reader.
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Implicit Information
Information that's hinted at without being said outright.
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Inference
A conclusion reached about something, based on evidence without being told.
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Internal Rhyme
When two or more words in the same line rhyme.
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Inversion
Altering the normal word order for emphasis.
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Irony
When words are used to imply the opposite of what they normally mean or when there is a difference between what people expect and what actually happens.
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Juxtaposition
When a writer puts two ideas, events, characters or descriptions close to each other to encourage the reader to contrast them.
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Limited Narrator
A narrator who only has partial knowlegde about the evens or characters in a story.
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Linear Structure
A type of narrative structure that tells the event of a story in chronological order.
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Linguistic Devices
Language techniques that are used to have an effect on an audience.
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List of Three
Using three words (adjectives or phrases) together to create emphasis.
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Metaphor
A way of describing something by saying that it is something else.
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Metre
The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables to create rhyme in a line of poetry.
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Monologue
One person speaking alone for a long period of time.
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Motif
A recurring idea or image in the text.
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Non-linear Structure
A type of narrative structure that tells the events of a story in a non-chronological order.
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Objective Writing
A neutral, unbiased style of writing which contains facts rather than writing.
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Omniscient Narrator
A narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in a narrative.
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Onomatopeia
A word that imitates the sound it describes as you say ir.
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Oxymoron
A phrase which appears to contradict itself.
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Pace
The speed at which the writer takes the reader through the events in a text or poem.
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Paraphrase
Describing or rephrasing something in a text without including a direct quote.
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Parenthesis
A rhetorical technique where an extra clause or phrase is inserted into a complete sentence.
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Pathetic Fallacy
Using the weather to describe the emotions and setting at the time.
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Personification
Describing a non-living thing as if it's a person.
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Phonetic Spellings
Spelling words as they sound.
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Plosive
A short burst of sound made when you say a word containing the letters b, d, g, k, p, or t.
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Protagonist
The main character in a text, or the leader of a particular cause of movement.
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Register
The specific language used to match writing to the social suitation that it's for.
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Rhetorical Question
A question that doesn't need an answer but is asked to make/emphasise a point.
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Rhyme Scheme
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
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Rhyming Couplet
A pair rhyming lines that are next to each other.
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Satire
Text that makes fun of people or situations, often by imitating them and exaggerating their flaws.
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Second Person
A narrative viewpoint hat is written as if the reader is one of the characters.
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Sensory Language
Language that appeals to the five senses.
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Sibilance
Repetition of "s" sounds.
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Simile
A way of describing something by comparing it to something else, by using the words "like" or "as".
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Simple Sentence
A sentence that is only made up of a single main clause.
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Soliloquy
When a single character in a play speaks their thoughts out loud. (No other characters can hear them.)
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Sonnet
A form of poem with fourteen lines, which follows a clear rhyming scheme.
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Symbolism
When an object stands for something else.
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Syntax
The arrangement of words in a sentence of phrase so that they make sense.
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Tabloid
A less formal type of newspaper, which often focuses on more sensational topics.
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Third Person
A narrative viewpoint where the narrator remains outside the events of the story.
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Tone
The feeling of a piece of writing.
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Viewpoint
The attitude and beliefs that a writer is trying to convey.
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Volta
A turning point in a poem, when the argument or tone changes dramatically.
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Where a word or phrase has two or more possible interpretations.

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Ambiguity

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A comparison to show how one thing is similar to another, which makes it easier to understand. E.g. The human brain is like a super computer.

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A rhetoricl technique where opposing words r ideas are put together to show a constrast.

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Card 5

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When a character in a play makes a short comment that reveals their thoughts to the audience and no other character can hear it.

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