Key English Subject Words

Cards (34)

  • Imagery/ Symbolism
    Using objects to represent key ideas
  • Irony
    When the opposite of what you say or intend happens
  • Equivocation
    Saying statements that are true but do not reveal the full truth
  • contrast
    using opposing ideas or images
  • Soliloquies
    when a character speaks alone on stage revealing their innermost thoughts and feelings.
  • Simile
    comparing something using ‘like’ or ‘as’
  • Metaphor
    saying something is something else; a direct comparison, not meant literally.
  • Extended Metaphor
    exactly the same as a normal metaphor, but you’ll see the same idea repeating over multiple sentences, lines, paragraphs (or stanzas)
  • Personification
    Applying human characteristics to objects or things.
  • Zoomorphism
    when you gives humans (or other things) animal features.
  • Pathetic Fallacy
    When human characteristics are applied things often found in nature; the weather.
  • Alliteration
    when the first letter of a word is repeated more than once
  • Assonance
    Repeating vowel sounds (not necessarily rhyming though)
  • Anecdote
    a short story from a personal experience
  • Onomatopoeia
    words that sound like what they are
  • Sibilance
    a repeated ‘s’ sound-either at the start, or in the middle of words.
  • Colloquial Language
    informal or slang words and phrases
  • Connotation
    like word associations
  • Semantic Field
    when a group of words all link to one overall theme
  • Euphemism
    A polite way of saying something often taboo or controversial
  • Double entendre
    when a word or phrase has two meanings, one of which is often rude
  • Idiom
    Commonly used phrases or metaphors
  • Emotive language
    powerful describing words or adjectives
  • Figurative Language
    the creative use of words or phrases to create a special meaning, that isn’t literally what they say
  • Evocative Verbs
    A doing word which sounds particularly active
  • Allusion
    making reference to people, places, events, literary work, myths or works of art
  • Allegory
    a type of writing in which the settings, characters, and events stand for other, often ,larger ideas
  • Didactic
    intended to teach, instruct, or have a moral lesson for the reader.
  • Motifs
    A recurring subject, image, theme or idea within a text
  • Ambiguity
    when something has an unclear meaning
  • Oxymoron
    two opposites together
  • Juxtaposition
    when two or more ideas are contrasted near (not necessarily next to) each other.
  • Antithesis
    something (or someone) that’s the direct opposite of something (or someone) else
  • Paradox
    a contradiction