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Narrative Stance:
1^st Person – I, We
2^nd Person – You
3^rd Person – Gender – Him, Her, She, It
Possessive Pronoun – My, Mine, His, Theirs
Demonstrative Pronoun – This, That, These, Those
Indefinite Pronoun – non-specific person or thing e.g. overall, manyGrammar:Parenthesis – Sectioning of Information in Brackets
Anaphora – Repeating terms at the start of a sentence
Asyndetic List – Listing without and
Syndetic List – Listing with and
Lexical Set – Repetition of a group of words with a certain group
Conjunction – FANBOYS = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
Contraction - shortening of two (or more) words into one – isn’t
Conditional Sentence – Starts with ‘If’

Sentence Moods:Imperative – Command
Exclamatory – Exclamation mark at the end
Declarative – Statement
Interrogative – Question mark at the end

Sentence Structure:Minor – No Verbs
Simple – Needs a Verb and a Subject
Compound – 2 simple sentences joined together by a conjunction – For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Complex – Subordinate Clause joined to Main Clause. Subordinate Clause = Can’t stand alone e.g. When the Bell rangLexis:
Superlative – Ends in ‘est’
Comparative – Ends in ‘er’
Hyperbole – Deliberate over-exaggeration of things
Juxtaposition – Two things being seen or placed together in contrast to each other
Indefinite Article= A/An
Definite Article = The
Interjection – Filled Pauses, express emotions and feelings e.g. OH!
Past Participle – Used with has, have or had
Present Participle – End in “ing”
Determiner – Introduces a Noun - a/an, the, every, this, those, or many
Metaphor – Something that can’t actually happen, be or see
Simile – uses ‘like’ or ‘as'
Intensifier – strengthens or weakens adjectives
Personification – non- human object given human characteristics
Pathetic Fallacy – Environment mirrors emotion
Oxymoron – Two things together that don’t make sense
Repetition – Repeated words
Litotes – Using a negative to state a positive
Rhetorical Question – Asked Question that doesn’t require an answer
Hypophora – Rhetorical Question followed by an answer
Hyponym – Words with a specific group
Synonym – Group with specific words
Syndetic Pair – Things that go together e.g. dark and light
Tripling – Listing of three items
Double Negative – More than one negative used
Allusion – Referring to something metaphorically
Utterance – Spoken Language
Nouns:Common – A person, thing or idea
Proper – Capitalised – name of a person, place or thing
Concrete – Five senses
Collective – Group of people or things
Abstract – Cannot be seen or touched, no physical reality
Noun Phrase – Adjective before a noun
Verbs:Dynamic – physical action
Stative – Thought, possession, senses and emotion.
Modal – certain, probable or possibility. Ability, permission, requests and advice - can, could, may, might, must, ought to, shall, should, will, be, do, have and would.
Adverb – Modifies Verbs and Adjectives – when, where, how, for what reason, what degree
Verb Phrase – Auxiliary Verb followed by a Verb
Intransitive Verb – Doesn’t have a direct object – not done to someone or something e.g. played
Transitive Verb – Does have a direct object – done to someone or something e.g. sufferingAdjective:Attributive – Before the Noun
Predicative – After the Noun
Compound Adjective – Two words joined by hyphen
Phonology:Plosive – P, B, T
Lateral – L
Fricative – F, V, TH
Sibilant – S, Z
Aspirant – H
Guttural – G
Bilabals – M, B
Monosyllabic Lexis – Words with one syllableyou
Polysyllabic Lexis – Words with more than one syllable
Consonance – Repetition of constonants
Assonance – Repetition of vowels
Onomatopoeia – Imitates sounds

How important is it to know a tonne of terminology?

Just a thought...

When you're writing about English Literature, you should be engaging with the key ideas in texts. Be careful about flooding your essays with terminology for the sake of it. I have a 1st class Literature degree and never used any of the above terms.

Just a thought...

When you're writing about English Literature, you should be engaging with the key ideas in texts. Be careful about flooding your essays with terminology for the sake of it. I have a 1st class Literature degree and never used any of the above terms.