Saturday, 5 September 2015

AS English Language Key Terminology

Verb
 'running'
Adverb 
 'quickly'
Noun
 'proper - Bristol, common - teacher'
Pronoun
 'me'
Filler
 'like'
Adjective
 'cute'
Metaphor
 'the curtain of night'
Simile
 'as/like'
Juxtaposition
 'a baby with a machine gun'
Alliteration
 'silly snake'
Personification
 'the run down house appeared depressed'
Oxymoron
 'happy misfortune'
Onomatopoeia
 'bang'
Jargon
 'subject specific language - LOL'
Symbolism
 'red rose associated with love'
Triples
 'cattle, capital, city'
Rhymes
 'the dog sat on a log'
Dialect
 'cockney is a dialect of English'
Hyperbole
 'I am so hungry I could eat a horse' - over exaggeration
Prepositions
 'above/near'
Assonance
 'do you like blue?'
Clause
 'Tom married Amy, WHEN HE WAS 19' - words forming a unit within a sentence
Synonyms
 words that have the same/almost the same meaning
Antonyms
 words that mean the opposite of each other

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