English Language

• Pathetic Fallacy 


  Is when the weather decides the mood

  for example, when the weather is rainy, people are sad and depressed

  2nd example, the dark night could symbolise something supernatural like 3AM Satan etc…
• Personification


  is when a non-human is given human qualities

  For example, the tree is waving john goodbye
• Simlie


  When you are comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

  For example, his facial vision looked like a falcon's eye.
• Metaphor

  Is when you are comparing two things with is or are

  Example: He is an Orc
• Extended Metaphor


  Pick a metaphor and explain how --> turn into an extended metaphor

  Metaphor --> life is a rollercoaster.

  Extended Metaphor --> Life is a rollercoaster you don’t know when you will be at the top or at the bottom, it will all happen in an instance, at the greatest heights you will be at the greatest heights and at times it will crash, but every day is never the same, just like in a turn in a Roller coaster is
• Oxymoron

  2 opposite words side by side

  example, the small giant
• Juxtaposition

  You explain an oxymoron

  The small giant tip-toing trying to reach the top shelf, however his small arms and puny fingers prevented him grabbing the bar of jam.
• Symbolism

  Is when objects represent a meaning

  For example, moon and the star represent Islam. 2nd Example, if you get a priest you will think someone died. In Macbeth the dagger links to death.
• Semantic Field


  where words are linked to an idea

  For example, PPE, 2m and Hand Sanitiser, Head of Year link to COVID.
• Irony

  Is when events in the text surprises the characters. Something not expected. Opposite, Sarcasm.

  Mr Birling offering 1000

  Scrooge changing his nature.
• Rhetorical Question


  Question that does not require an answer
• Hyperbole

  Is when you hype, when over-exaggerating
• Assonance

  Is the repetition of the vowel sound.

  I am too cool for school.
• Alliteration

  Words in a row begin with the same letter
• Sibilance

  Is when words in a row have the s letter or the s sound.

  Example: the snake was slowly hissing
• Euphemism


  When you say something in an indirect manner

  He is not with us anymore
• Emotive Language

  Is when the writer makes the reader feel emotional. By making them angry.
• Onomatopoeia

  Words describe the sound
• Rule of 3/Triples

  words or phrases in a row that describe something
• Plosive

  Repetition of 'harsh' sounds

  such as 'P' , 'D', 'B'
• Zoomorphism


  When you give a person animal features

  john barked at me
• Repetition

  Language Device and Structure


  repeatedly and how it creates an effect
• Nouns, verbs, adjectives
• Nouns, verbs and adjectives

  Gerard Verbs

  Polyptoton
• Asyndeton


  Words with no ands

  red,white,blue
• Parallellism

  Similar sentence structure, loads of lines
• Anaphora

  Words at the start of the paragraph which are the same
• Anthropomorphism


  Giving human qualities to animals
• Epizeuxis- repeat word immediately


  eg very very
• Litotes

  double negative

  he wasnt unintelligent
• Dysphemism


  negative term for positive
• Polysyndeton 


  repetition of conjunctions

  red and white and blue
• Pejorative

  Insulting
• modifier- pre-modifier and post modifier


  Pre modifier - 'loud noise'- loud is the pre-modifier

  post modifier - 'In the house on that corner'
• Lexical field


  words in a certain group

  eg

  rain,windy,fog,clouds,umbrella all in the Weather lexical group
• Cremamorhpic language 


  people or living things giving object qualities
• polyptoton- different words with the same root word
• Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds within words
• Alliteration- repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of words
• Metaphor- comparing two unlike objects to show similarity