English revision

• Analysis


  Allows us to see the smaller parts of something and understand more about them
• Analysis


  1. Might involve looking at evidence in documents and reports and picking out what is needed to support a hypothesis

  2. Forensic analysis: looking over emails to find specific patterns

  3. Forensic analysis: searching social media to find key words

  4. Journalistic analysis: reading the statement of witnesses to an event and piecing together a narrative
• Techniques


  • Onomatopoeia
  • Alliteration
  • Sibilance
  • Assonance
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification
• Onomatopoeia


  Words that sound like their action
• Onomatopoeia


  • Plap, bang, wash
• Alliteration


  The same letter or sounds at the beginning of words
• Alliteration


  • Polly, parrot
• Sibilance


  The use of repeated 's' sounds
• Sibilance


  • Silently the sader
• Assonance


  The use of similar vowel sounds
• Assonance


  • It back and relax
• Metaphor


  Comparing 2 things without using like or as
• Metaphor


  • The clouds were ink
• Simile


  Comparing 2 things using like or as
• Simile


  • He sang like a bird
• Personification


  Giving human traits to things that aren't human
• Personification


  • The flowers danced in the wind
• Story structure


  • Climax of action
  • Plot hook - What could possibly go wrong?
  • Conclusion - could be a twist in the tale leaving questions
• Narration


  First person (I/me) or third person (he/him/she/her)
• Description


  • Adjectives, adverbs, similes
• Alliteration


  The same letter or sounds at the beginning
• Personification


  Technique of presenting objects as if they have feelings
• Simile


  • His scars were like a map on his skin!
• Allusion


  Make reference to well known characters
• Language techniques include simile, metaphor, allusion, hyperbole
• Analogy compares 2 things and explains the relationship between them
• Language features


  • Adjectives
  • Verbs
  • Nouns
  • Adverbs
• Figurative language


  • Similes
  • Metaphors
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Alliteration
• Text structure


  • Paragraphs
  • Sentence types
  • Punctuation
  • Repetition
  • Rhetorical questions
• Identify the question