Useful words for GCSE English
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Alliteration |
The poet used alliteration to describe the beautiful butterflies.
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Opinion |
The spreading of ideas and information - giving only the government's opinion.
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Rhetorical |
A rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true.
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Repetition |
Repetition of the same word(s) at the beginning of a series of phrases or lines.
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Emotive |
Words that link to emotion.
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Simile |
A parallel example used to illustrate a point; operates rather like an extended simile.
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Metaphor |
A metaphor is saying something is something else.
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Adjective |
Spatial is an adjective meaning space or places; spatial aces of action is where two different actions are taking place in one scene.
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Perspective |
Focalisation is when the narrative particularly follows and gives the perspective of a single character (or perhaps a single group of characters).
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Noun |
Kneeing is the verb for the noun knee.
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Verb |
A phrase is a small group of words without a verb.
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Adverb |
Children learned the definition of an adverb in class today.
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Protagonist |
Antagonist is the person or force within a story that opposes the protagonist or hero.
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Antagonist |
Antagonist is the person or force within a story that opposes the protagonist or hero.
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Enjambment |
A poet uses enjambment to flow from one line to the next without punctuation.
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plosive |
Hard b and p sounds.
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Personification |
Giving an object human qualities is personification - 'a strong wind menaced the trees'.
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Onomatopoeia |
Onomatopoeia is when it sounds like the word, for example bang.
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Pronoun |
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
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