English Language Paper 1

Noun

a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea/

Verb

An action, state or occurance

Adjective

A word that describes a noun

Adverb

A word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective or verb, expressing manner, space, time or degree

Pronoun

A word that takes the place of a noun

Dynamic

verb A verb that shows continued or progressive action on the part of a subject. They occur over a span of time.

Static verb

Verbs that express a state rather than an action. They usually relate to thoughts, emotions, relationships, senses etc.

Concrete noun

Nouns you can physically see and touch.

Abstract noun

Words that name things you cannot physically see or touch.

Exclamative sentence

A sentence type used to express surprise about something unexpected or extraordinary.

Interrogative sentence

An interrogative sentence is a sentence whose grammatical form shows that it is a question.

Imperative sentence

Imperative sentences are used to issue a command or instruction, make a request, or offer advice.

Declarative sentence

A declarative sentence makes a statement and ends with a full stop. It's named appropriately because it declares or states something.

Irony

A rhetorical device, literary technique, or event which appears, on the surface to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

Alliteration

The occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Assonance

Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants.

Sibilance

Sibilance is a more specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a hissing sound in the writing.

Onomatopoeia

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

Consonance

The recurrence of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity.

Plosives

Denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air.

Monosyllabic

A word or utterance consisting of one syllable.

Visual imagery

Imagery pertaining to graphics, visual scenes, pictures of the sense of sight.

Auditory imagery

Imagery pertaining to sounds, noises, music, or the sense of hearing.

Olfactory imagery.

Imagery pertaining to odours, scents, or the sense of smell

Gustatory imagery

Imagery related to the sense of taste.

Tactile imagery

Imagery pertaining to physical textures or the sense of touch.

Synaesthesia

A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell and touch at a given time.

Protagonist

Leading character or major character

Antagonist

Opposing force to the protagonist usually brings conflict.

Foil

A character who contrasts another.

Simile

Comparison of one thing with another thing using the words 'like' or as.

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Extended metaphor

Refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.

Personification

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Symbolism

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.