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• continuous verb
• imperatives


  commands
• abstract nouns


  Names we have for ideas, emotions, qualities, processes, occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy', 'gentleness', 'wedding
• pronouns


  Take the position and function of nouns but do not specifically name them - He, she, it, they, him, her, them
• adjectives


  Describing words
• adverbs


  Describe actions (verbs); often end in -ly
• repetition


  Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
• euphemism


  An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
• metaphor


  A comparison without using like or as
• simile


  A comparison using "like" or "as"
• personification


  the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
• figurative language


  writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally
• allusions (to recent events or cultural concerns)


  a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature
• homeoteleuton


  a series of words which end in the same sounds
• plosives


  Consonant sounds that form a small explosion when spoken eg 'b', 'p', 't', 'd
• pathetic fallacy


  ascribing feelings to things (weather)
• alliteration


  Repetition of initial consonant sounds
• sibilance


  A type of alliteration in which the "s" sound is repeated.
• assonance


  Repetition of vowel sounds
• Paradox/paradoxical phrases


  A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. eg. less is more
• oxymoron


  conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')
• hyperbole


  exaggeration
• tricolon (of adjectives, of nouns, of verbs)


  A series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses
• colloquial phrases


  informal language, casual language
• iambic pentameter


  a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable
• antithesis


  Direct opposite
• trochaic meter


  a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, a falling rhythm which sounds tense
• chronological order/linear structure


  the order in which events happen in time
• shift in tone/mood


  dramatic change in speaker's attitude usually between stanzas
• Interjection (a word or single sentence)

  a word thrown into a sentence or conversation
• rhyme


  Repetition of sounds at the end of words
• Syndetic listing (Syndeton)


  listing that contains the conjuction 'and'

  effect: creates accumulation of things, brings emphasis
• Asyndetic listing (Asyndeton)


  Listing which does not involve the use of conjunctions
• Italicised (interjections)


  italics
• Anaphora


  the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
• Epistrophe


  the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
• connotati


  an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
• Intertextuality


  the relationship between texts, especially literary ones, referencing another text
• Onomatopoeia


  A word that imitates the sound it represents.
• extended metaphor


  A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.