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Knowledge Base: English Literary Terms: Word Bank Year 9 | Autumn Term 1
1. Word Classes
1.1
noun
A name, place or thing.
1.2
proper noun
A noun used to indicate a particular name (Jane, Wednesday) or place (Winchester). Proper nouns should have a capital letter.
1.3
abstract noun
A noun that refers to a non-physical thing such as a feeling, idea or concept e.g. freedom, happiness, honesty.
2. Literary Terminology
2.1
simile
The comparison of one person or thing to another, using like or as, e.g. the room is like an oven or the room is as hot as the sun.
2.2
metaphor
The comparison of one person or thing to another, using is/was/were. Sometimes 'stronger' than a simile, e.g. the room is an oven.
2.3
extended metaphor
Metaphor or group of metaphors that continue throughout a text.
2.4
alliteration
The repetition of the same letter or sound a the beginning of words next to or close to each other.
2.5
sibilance
The repetition of the “s” sound at the beginning of words next to or close to each other.
2.6
personification
Applying human characteristics to non-human things eg; animals, objects, nature.
2.7
onomatopoeia
A word which means the sound it makes, e.g. “crash”, “buzz”, “zoom”
2.8
pathetic fallacy
Using nature and weather conditions to develop or establish a mood or tone, e.g. dark, rainy night.
2.9
symbolism
Using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind, e.g. butterflies.
2.10
perspective
A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something: a point of view.
2.11
juxtaposition
The contrast of two or more ideas across a text, e.g. power vs helplessness.
2.12
emotive language
When certain word choices aremade to evoke an emotional response in the reader.
1.4 concrete noun
1.5 verb
1.6 adjective
A noun that refers to a physical thing e.g. pen, table. A word indicating an action.
A word which describes a noun or pronoun.
1.7
comparative adjective
The change in suffix when comparing two or more objects. For most words with one syllable you can add the suffix – ‘er’. For most words with two or more syllables you can add the prefix “more”.
e.g. long becomes longer and dangerous becomes more dangerous.
1.8
superlative adjective
The change in suffix when comparing two or more objects. For most words with one syllable you can add the suffix – ‘est’. For most words with two or more syllables you can add the prefix “most”.
e.g. long becomes longest and dangerous becomes most dangerous.
1.9
adverb
A word which can describe an action or modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb.
e.g. He accidentally dropped the ball.
1.10
prefix
Placed at the beginning of a word to modify meaning, e.g. unhappy, reimagine.
1.11
suffix
Placed at the end of a word to modify meaning, e.g. happily. Imagined.
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