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A* Words for English Literature Exam 25th May 2010

Hi guys, was just wondering if people knew any good A* type words I can use for my engish lit tomorow (of mice and men + duffy and armitage)

Words like
Enjambment
Oxymoron
etc..

cheers

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synergy1
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pathetic fallacy
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Danz121
juxtoposition
hyperbole
colloqualism
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Faith01
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Danz121
juxtoposition
hyperbole
colloqualism


I used none of that crap and I still got an A* haha love it!
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JoyBarking
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Irony oxymoron euphemism contrast pathos atmosphere tone connotation alliteration emphasis undertone subplot symbolism parenthesis rhetorical impersonal naivety idyllic perceptions foreshadowing didactic intentions empathetic influences oppression

Bearing in mind I'm doing a different specification an texts to you. :smile:
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mp145
do you want to get an a*

if you doi then you should know these words already :P
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roodootoo
i've got the exam as well.
link everything (in the poetry section) and write a lot about a little. ditto faith01, i didnt use any fancy words in my mock and got and a*.
wait: on my first sonne has for the structure: iambic pentameter! oh yeah, check out those big words!
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Well for Of Mice and Men you want to be using words like:

- Individualistic
- Rapacious
- Universal
- Nihilistic
- Benign
- Malign
(Normally used in reference to fate and destiny; benign being destiny and malign being fate)

Include the themes such as:

- Loneliness
- Fate and destiny
- Discrimination
- The American Dream
- Competition and masculinity

In regards to the poetry, yeah, words like:

- Enjambment
- Caesura
- Trochaic, dactylic rhythms
- Iambic pentameter
- "Schwa" (feminine word(s))
- Tautology
- Relative and absolute

I mean, the words are good and all but you really want to be focusing on your conceptualised response to the task; mention the poetic terms but don't overuse them. Ideally you should be writing alot about a little.
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Muffinz
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theme
symbol
simile/metaphor
historical context

:3
Bovine somatotropin.
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JoyBarking
Irony oxymoron euphemism contrast pathos atmosphere tone connotation alliteration emphasis undertone subplot symbolism parenthesis rhetorical impersonal naivety idyllic perceptions foreshadowing didactic intentions empathetic influences oppression

Bearing in mind I'm doing a different specification an texts to you. :smile:


What spec are you doing?

Also what does ; Pathos, parenthesis and foreshadowing mean?
sesquipedalian
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Catcher in the rye - Bildungsroman

Ad Hominem
Beanz123
What spec are you doing?

Also what does ; Pathos, parenthesis and foreshadowing mean?


I'm doing Aqa spec B with Lord of the Flies, An Inspector Calls and War Poetry. It's clearly the spec that nobody does :smile:

Pathos is the technique that writers use to evoke sympathy in a reader.
Parenthesis is a strange word that means brackets. In poetry.
Foreshadowing is when something happens that kind of tempts something else to happen in a story. Liiiiiike when Harry Potter unleashes that snake in the zoo in Parseltongue it foreshadows his magical adventure in the land of magic etc etc. :wink:
Faith01
I used none of that crap and I still got an A* haha love it!

Lol really? What board were you on?
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Faith01
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im so academic
Lol really? What board were you on?


WJEC.
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defuzion
im just using this topic to test my english language vocab from memory, so here;

declarative sentences
imperitive
exclamatory sentences
emphatic sentences
figurative language
metaphorical language
personification
cognitive language
non-cognitive language
adverbial phrases
asyndetic lists
syndetic lists
polysyndeton
elliptical
archaic language
diachronic variation
colloquialism
quatrain
enjambment
juxtaposition
pre-modifiers
post-modifiers
hyperbolic language
superlatives
intensifiers
conditonal verbs
pathetic fallacy
allusion
intertextuality
lexis
semantic field
pragmatics
paralingustic features
prosodic features
vocalization
non-fluency features
expletive
etymology
connotation
denotation
multi-clausal
co-ordinating conjunction
antithesis
context dependencies


quote me if you want to know the definition

edit: oh wow this is a gcse topic, my bad
Less words, more impressive content!
How Of Mice and Men was going to be called "Something that happend" and how that suits the final words Carson says.

Or how Slims Femal dog is called LuLu, and Curlys wife is refrenced as this later on.

Things like that.
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JoyBarking
I'm doing Aqa spec B with Lord of the Flies, An Inspector Calls and War Poetry. It's clearly the spec that nobody does :smile:

Pathos is the technique that writers use to evoke sympathy in a reader.
Parenthesis is a strange word that means brackets. In poetry.
Foreshadowing is when something happens that kind of tempts something else to happen in a story. Liiiiiike when Harry Potter unleashes that snake in the zoo in Parseltongue it foreshadows his magical adventure in the land of magic etc etc. :wink:

Does that mean all the predictions for LOTF stuff I was so happy about finding is completely useless to me?
GottaLovePhysics! :)
Less words, more impressive content!
How Of Mice and Men was going to be called "Something that happend" and how that suits the final words Carson says.

Or how Slims Femal dog is called LuLu, and Curlys wife is refrenced as this later on.

Things like that.


:eek: I did not know that. Thanks!

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