Literary Terminology irony Many of these words you will have met in primary school. Others you juxtaposition will come across in the course of litotes secondary school. metaphor Do your best to remember them and, where appropriate, to use mood them when talking and writing about literature. motif onomatopoeia allegory oxymoron alliteration paradox allusion pathetic fallacy analogy pathos antithesis personification archetype plot assonance point of view atmosphere purpose audience rhyme bathos rhythm caesura satire character setting characterisation simile consonance style dialogue stanza effect stream of consciousness euphemism structure figurative language suspense foreshadowing symbol form theme hyperbole tone imagery understatement internal rhyme verse inversion viewpoint Language Terminology 6. Conjunctions • coordinating With a few exceptions, these are all • subordinating words you will have met in primary school. 7. Pronouns • personal Do your best to remember them o subjective throughout secondary and to use o objective them, if appropriate, when writing and • possessive talking about language. • reflexive • relative A. Word Classes 1. Nouns 8. Determiners • proper • articles • abstract o definite • concrete o indefinite • collective • possessive • noun phrase • extended noun phrase B. Sentences • subject 2. Verbs • object • voice • clause o active o main o passive o subordinate • aspect . relative o progressive • phrase o perfective • subordination • tense • coordination o past • simple o present • compound o future • complex • mood • multi-clause o subjunctive o conditional C. Punctuation o indicative • ellipsis o interrogative • hyphen o imperative • colon • finite • semi-colon • infinitive • full-stop • transitive • question mark • intransitive • exclamation mark • modal • inverted commas • regular • apostrophe • irregular • parenthesis • phrasal o brackets • participle o dash
3. Adjectives D. Words and word construction • comparative • morphology • superlative o prefix o suffix 4. Adverbs o root • comparative • antonym • superlative • synonym • adverbials (incl. fronted) • homonym • consonant 5. Prepositions • vowel • etymology