Answers:

Simile
Making a comparison by likening something which is unfamiliar
or unseen with something which is familiar. Often using the
words like and as.

Metaphor
A figure of speech that identifies one thing as being another for
dramatic effect.

Purpose
What a text intends to do. For example; to persuade, inform,
entertain or instruct its reader.

Audience
The reader or listener that the text was intended for.

Tone
How the composition of words in a text set the scene, e.g. is
the text playful, serious, sarcastic, tense etc.?

Register
How formal language is, or is not.

Alliteration
The repetition of a letter within a sentence or phrase, to
produce a memorable or catchy sound upon reading.

Onomatopoeia
Sounds conveyed through words.

Sensory language
Language which calls upon the five senses of; touch, sight,
sound smell and taste.

Emotive language
Language that appeals to the readers emotions, often to
convince or move the reader.

Dramatic language
Language which is used to surprise and create shock, effecting
the readers reactions. Language which attracts attention.

Descriptive language
Vivid and specific, used to paint a mental picture in the readers
mind. Concerned with settings, people and describing physical
qualities.

Tripling/ the rule of three

Creating an expression with three parts, or the listing of three
words to emphasise.

Personal pronouns
A pronoun which is associated with a person or people, e.g. we,
you, they

Symbolism
Conveying ideas, connotations and concepts using association.

Pathetic fallacy
Giving human attributes or characteristics to nature, animals or
the weather.

Imperative verbs
Doing words which are used to give instructions. For example,
look, get and eat.

Rhetorical questions
Questions which are not intended to be answered. Used to
make or emphasise a point.

Connotations
Implied or associated meanings.

Themes
The key ideas of a story; its topics.

Exaggeration
Portraying something or a situation to be much better, or much
worse than it actually is.

Imagery
Language used to create a vivid picture within the readers
mind.

Protagonist
The key/ main character within a story.

Ambiguity
A term given to something which has more than one possible
meaning.
Handout:

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A term given to
something
which has more
than one
possible
meaning.

The key/ main

character within
a story.

Language used
to create a vivid
picture within
the readers
mind.

Portraying
something or a
situation to be
much better, or
much worse
than it really is.

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The key ideas of

a story; its
topics.

Implied or
associated
meanings.

Questions which
are not intended
to be answered,
used to
emphasise a
point.

Doing words
which are used
to give
instructions. For
example, look,
get and eat.

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______________

____________________

Giving human
attributes or
characteristics
to nature,
animals or the
weather

Conveying
ideas,
connotations
and concepts
using
association.

A pronoun which
is associated
with a person or
people, e.g. we,
you, they

Creating an
expression with
three parts, or
the listing of
three words to
emphasise.

______________

______________

______________

______________

Vivid and
specific, used to
paint a mental
picture in the
readers mind.
Concerned with
settings, people
and describing
physical
qualities.

Language which
is used to
surprise and
create shock,
effecting the
readers
reactions.
Language which
attracts
attention.

Language that
appeals to the
readers
emotions, often
to convince or
move the
reader.

Language which
calls upon the
five senses of;
touch, sight,
sound smell and
taste.

______________

______________

______________

______________

Sounds
conveyed
through words.

The repetition of
a letter within a
sentence or
phrase, to
produce a
memorable or
catchy sound
upon reading.

How formal
language is, or
is not.

How the
composition of
words in a text
set the scene,
e.g. is the text
playful, serious,
sarcastic, tense
etc.?

______________

______________

___________________

________________

The reader or
listener that the
text was
intended for.

What a text
intends to do.
For example; to
persuade,
inform, entertain
or instruct its
reader.

A figure of
speech that
identifies one
thing as being
another for
dramatic effect.

Making a
comparison by
likening
something
which is
unfamiliar or
unseen with
something
which is familiar.

Often using the

words like and
as.

Listening Task: Extension.

Simile: The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like
the blue honey of the Mediterranean . The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald.
Metaphor: All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They
have their exits and their entrances.
William Shakespeare
Alliteration: From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-crossd lovers

take their life. - Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

Onomatopoeia: 'How they clang, and clash, and roar! Edgar Allen Poe
Sensory language: We watch the fire blazing,
And feel the roots of the house move, but sit on,
Seeing the window tremble to come in,
Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons. Ted Hughes.
Symbolism: the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of
Pallas just above my chamber door; Edgar Allen Poe
Tripling: The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost
of Christmases yet to come. A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens.
Pathetic fallacy: So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the
lead stripped off their roofs []Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind.
Great Expectations.

Rhetorical questions: If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not
laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? From 'The Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare.
Exaggeration: "People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to
go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of
Maycomb County." To Kill A Mocking Bird. Harper Lee.