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English Language Revision:, Terminology - Coggle Diagram
English Language Revision:
Fictional Writing
Is a narrative writing that involves elements of plot character created entirely by the author
Non-fictional writing
Based on real world events and real people.
Grammar
A system of rules that allows us to structure sentences.
It includes several aspects of the English language, like: Parts of speech (verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, modifiers, etc.) Clauses (e.g. independent, dependent, compound)
Whole Text Cohesive Features
Refers to the many ways (grammatical, lexical, semantic, metrical, alliterative) in which the elements of a text are linked together.
Different words or phrases used to connect ideas between different parts of text.
Monologue
A prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation
Example, a scene that captures a president's speech to a crowd exhibits a dramatic monologue that is both lengthy and important to the story's plotline.
Parallel Sentences
When you connect two clauses or phrases with a word or comparison.
Example, My dog not only likes to play fetch, but he also likes to chase cars.
Anaphoric Referencing
Means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text or its meaning.
Example, "I went out with Jo on Sunday. She looked awful." "She" clearly refers to Jo, there is no need to repeat her name.
Noun phrases
Is a small group of words which contains a noun but doesn't contain a verb.
Expanded noun phrases tell you even more about the noun.
Example sentence - "I found the owner of the dog", "the owner of the dog" is the noun phrase.
Discourse Markers
Is a word or phrase whose function is to organise communication into segments.
Examples, "well, so, right, okay, now, I mean".
They are also called linking words/phrases or sentence connectors.
Narrative Structure
Is the organisation or framework of a story.
Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Terminology
Comparative
We can use comparative adjectives to describe the differences. We use comparative adjectives when talking about two things (not three or more things).
Example - "bigger" is the comparative form of the adjective "big"
Superlative
used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality (the tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest).
Example - My house is the largest one in our neighborhood.
Active Verb
when the verb is clearly the subject, or 'the doer,' of the sentence.
The Huskies (subject) beat (active verb) the Bears in the last game.
Plural Noun
A plural noun is the form of a noun used to show there is more than one person, place, thing, or idea. Most nouns simply add -s or -es to the end to become plural.
Example - Horses
Personal Pronoun
A personal pronoun is a short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person
Example - he, her, him
Imperative
a verb or phrase in the imperative mood.
Example - Stop
Exclamatory
(of a cry or remark) expressing surprise, strong emotion, or pain.
Example - "Oh, no!" and "What a large dog!"
Interjection
An interjection is a word or phrase used to express a feeling or to request or demand something.
Example - Ouch! That really hurt badly.
Sibilance
Sibilance is a type of literary device and figure of speech wherein a hissing sound is created in a group of words through the repetition of 's' sounds.
Example - “Sarah's silly sister swallowed her sweet.”
Juxtaposition
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Example - Dark light
Connote/Connotation
To convey in addition to exact explicit meaning
Example - The word "childlike" connotes innocence.
Denote/Denotation
To serve as a linguistic expression of the notion of.
Example - The word "derby" can denote a horse race or a kind of hat.
Anthropomorphism
the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to an animal, or object.
Example - Cunning Mr. Fox
Visual Imagery
This what you can see, and includes places, colours, people and is something that most of us experience every day.
Example - All that could be seen was the ragged rock, which has spikes sticking out like the spines on a porkipine.
Gustatory Imagery
Gustatory imagery, in particular, refers to imagery related to the sense of taste.
Example - Sweetness, such as candies, cookies, and desserts.
Tactile imagery
This is what you can feel, and includes textures and the many sensations a human being experiences when touching something.
Example - he scraped his hands across the ragged rock in which he had fallen from.
Auditory imagery
This refers to the hearing sense, this would be description that describes the hearing sense.
Example - All that could heard was the whistle of the wind.
Adverbial
Passive Verb
Singular Noun
Olfactory imagery
Hyperbole