English Literature [Glossary]

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• Common noun naming word tangible chair penguin man
• Abstract noun naming word idea concept state belief
• Proper noun naming word specific common bob eiffel
• Word verb represents action process
• Active verb word represents physical action jump run
• Stative verb word represents process mental love ponder
• Auxiliary verb order create present participles future tense
• Modal verb auxiliary express degree possibility necessity
• Adjective describing word modifies noun
• Word adverb describing modifies types nouns
• Superlative adjective displays extreme quality biggest smallest worst
• Definite article the
• Indefinite article a or an
• Pronoun word takes place noun sentence
• Monosyllabic lexis words syllable bob ate food
• Polysyllabic lexis words syllable robert fasted observance ramadan
• Imperative sentence mood issuing command
• Declarative sentence mood making statement
• Interrogative sentence mood question asking
• Sentence exclamatory mood strong sense emotion alarm emphasis
• Tenor relationship author reader created
• Attitudes opinions expressed text in
• Context things text shape meaning
• Form structure shape text the
• Themes recurring ideas images text
• Colloquialism informal language bloke fella lass bog
• Ellipsis parts written structure missing
• Syntax ways words form sentences ordering create meaning
• Rhetorical question designed answered a
• Hypophora rhetorical question answered straight
• Hyperbole deliberate over-exaggeration things effect
• Litotes deliberate downplaying things effect
• Repetition words the of
• Imagery descriptive metaphorical language create vivid picture
• Big fat wad cash pre-modification post-modification pre post
• Metaphor comparison states demon driver book knowledge
• Simile comparison states flat pancake snow felt silk
• Synecdoche metaphor states small constitute part set wheels
• Analogy explaining terms kids exited school river downstream
• Bed pathetic fallacy environment weather mirrors emotions dreary
• Human personification qualities trees danced wind
• Extended metaphor continues text recurring references
• Things represent symbolism figurative metaphorical language means colour
• Lexical field language area anatomy heart lungs eyes
• Semantics meaning words the of
• Words acronym created initials grouped eg= eu uk
• Homophone words sound loud knew no,know
• Homonym word multiple meanings great= size positivity cool
• Juxtaposition placing elements conscious effect contrasting complementary chili
• Oxymoron contradictory words phrase peaceful war
• Phonological features alliteration repetition relate sound
• Onomatopoeia word spelled sound describes kaboom drip plop
• Assonance repetition vowel sounds aeiou wear hood chop
• Alliteration repetition consonant sounds text fluffy filthy condition
• Exposition part story author information character plot begins
• Monologue poem prolonged drama character delivers speech reveals
• Dramatic audience irony aware characters play fiction effect
• Anthropomorphism animal takes characteristics human wearing clothes talking
• Satire writing mocks societal establishment
• Alternate rhyme abab
• Caesura mid line pause
• Couplet line verse rhyming two
• Enjambment run lines on
• Syllable iambic pentameter poetic meter unstressed stressed swell
• Internal rhyme rhyming line within
• Octet line verse 8
• Quatrain line verse 4
• Sestet line verse 6
• English sonnet lines divided quatrains couplet iambic pentameter
• Types poem sonnet lyric ballad ode narrative
• Volta turning point sonnet a

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