Technical terms for paper 1 AQA English Lang GCSE

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What type of words are "happy", "long", "green", "wobbly" and "dried"? Options: Adjectives, Verbs (doing or action words), Metaphors, Adverbs

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Adjectives

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What type of words are "run", "jumped", "slept", "trembled" and "shivered"? Options: Descriptive words, Adjectives - describing words., Verbs, Personification

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Verbs

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What type of words are "slowly", "moodily" and "grumpily"? Options: Similes, Adjectives - describing words, Adverbs.  They describe how a verb action is done., Descriptive words

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Adverbs.  They describe how a verb action is done.

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What type of words are "table", "road", "woman" and "happy"? Options: Nouns or naming words, Verbs (doing or action words), Adjectives (describing words), Adverbs (words that describe how an action takes place)

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Nouns or naming words

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Which of these is an example of a simile? Options: The children ran like ripples through water, The wizened woman wrote rhymes., The thunder roared.

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The children ran like ripples through water

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Which of these is an example of alliteration? Options: All the world's a stage., My alarm clock yells at me every morning., Menacing sounds of mashing metal machines emanated from the mines., He is as brave as a lion.

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Menacing sounds of mashing metal machines emanated from the mines.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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What is personification?
(Example: "the ivy wove itself around the fence".

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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Why would a writer use a triple?

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Describing something three times is inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of descriptive phrases.

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Discourse marker

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A discourse marker is a word or phrase that plays a role in managing the flow and structure of a piece of writing.