Fiction - Language Terminology: Reading and Comprehension: English Language: GCSE (9:1)

Allusion

A reference to another event, person, place or work.

Ambiguity

Use of language where the meaning is unclear or has two or more possible meanings or interpretations.

Anaphora

Repetition at the start of a sentence or statement.

Antithesis

Opposites - direct contrast.

Colloquial

Ordinary everyday speech and language (slang or dialect)

Syntax

Refers to the way in which words are placed together in writing.

Preposition

Shows relation of one thing to another - on, at, in, by

Interrogative

Basically, a question - think of interrogate. Can be a Sentence or a word. "What?"

Anecdote

A brief account of an interesting incident or event that usually is intended to entertain or to make a point.

Intensifier

A word, especially an adverb, that usually increases the degree of emphasis or force to be given to the element it modifies, as 'very', 'somewhat', 'enormously' and so on.

Superlative

Word that includes the letters 'est' which express the most extreme version of something e.g. highest (nothing can be higher) warmest (nothing can be warmer).

Assonance

Repeated vowel sounds