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Key vocabulary Year 8 revision - Coggle Diagram
Key vocabulary Year 8 revision
English
context
the circumstance that forms the setting for an event or scene that happens
Vagabond
a person who travels place to place without a home often commits crimes
blacking factory
any prepation such as one contains lamp black for giving a black finish to shoes
psudoym
a pictorous name epecially used by the author
malefactors
a person who commits a crime or some other wrong doing
deter
to put someone of and discorage
squalour
very dirty or messy
auster
very strict
capital punishment
the legal killing of a criminal
industrial revoulution
more machines and big factories
genre
a style or category of an art, music or litrature
atmosphere
the pervading tone or mood of a place, situation or ceative work
English
deprevation
hardship, distress or ruin
gait
a manner of how someone moves or walks on their feet.
shrewdly
in a way that shows sharp powers of judgements astutely
foil
a foil is a character that contrast with another to highlight the quaities of each other
dismal
causing a mood of gloom or depression
semantic feild
a set of words that are grouped by meaning to create an atmosphere for the reader
clerck
a person employed in an offic or bank to keep records.
personification
when an object is given human like qualities/ characteristics or abillities
livid
dark bluish grey in colour
protagonist
the leading character or one of the majour characters in a film/ play or movie
sturdily
in a way that is physically strong and solid or thich and therforw more likly to hurt
villain
a charater whose villian and evil actions and motions are important to the plot of the film,story or film
English
convention
things you would usally assosiate with
transparent
allowing light to pass through it
pathetic fallacy
a literacy term for the attrubution of a human emotion emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human
opaque
not able to see through it
perplexed
confusion or puzzled