Language

• Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words in a line of poetry
• Anaphora is when a word or phrase is repeated at the start of successive sentences, clauses, phrases, or lines.
• personification is when a non-human object or concept is given human qualities
• Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement, idea, person or event for dramatic effect.
• simile is a comparison between two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as
• Metaphor is making a non literal comparison between two things. (saying something IS something)
• Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate the sound of the object or action.( BANG, BOOM)
• Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two contradictory terms are used together. (placing 2 opposite words together - awfully good)
• Colloquial language is informal language (chatty/ slang - wanna)
• Rhetorical questions are questions that don't need an answer, that is asked to make a point or to make the reader think.
• hypophora is where a writer raises a question and then immediately answers it
• Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
• direct address is when you use the pronouns “you”,”we”,”us” to address the audience
• Proper Noun is a name used for a person, place or organsation. ALWAYS HAS A CAPITAL LETTER
• Pronoun is a word used in a place of a noun to avoid repetition. (I, we, she, he)
• Verb is a word that shows action (jumped, ran, ate)
• Adverb adds description to a verb tells you how the action is carried out ( quickly, slowly, greedily)
• Adjective adds description to a nouns (fluffy, beautiful)
• Preposition tells you the position of a object (under, over, in, next to)
• Concrete noun is a name of an object that relates to the senses - see, hear, touch, taste, smell- anything that isn’t an emotion or name of a person or place (dinner, cat, chairs, phone)
• Abstract noun is the name of a state or emotion that you cannot physically touch (love, sadness, happiness)
• Pathetic fallacy is when the time of day, weather, light or dark, setting or words used relate to the mood of the text (rainy weather -miserable mood)
• Modal verbs are words that suggest possibility (can, could, would, should)