Language+Features+for+Yr+12s

__What are Language Features__ Imagery; using carefully selected words to help us visualize & imagine a subject (adjectives, specific nouns etc)

Parts of Speech; Nouns, Verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns, preposition, articles.

‍Verbs Tenses; present, past, future.‍

Figurative language;

Emotive / Evocative language;

literal vs figurative language;  Connotation (slut = female, but suggests a certain __type__ of female, and has negative overtones)  Denotation; looks at etymology + derivation of the word (bitch = female dog)

This was Casey's idea. If you have trouble remembering all of the simile, metaphor etc. My old English teacher showed me this to remember them, MR H SOAP;

M- Metaphor

R- Repetition

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">H- hyperbole

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">S- Simile

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">O- Onomatopoeia

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A- Alliteration

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">P- Personification

Unfamiliar Text KEY TERMS 2.3 Study Notes 2013 Reading strategies: Skim for overall impression and to note clues (Source, author, date, headings etc.) Scan for details Make connections with what we already know Predict Ask questions to clarify meaning Visualise Identify main ideas Analyse Summarise Paragraph Response Structure: Statement Explanation Example Comment Note: Use the relevant terminology
 * ideas
 * imagery
 * metaphor, extended metaphor, simile, personification, pun, hyperbole, analogy
 * alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, sibilance
 * style e.g. use of balanced sentences/phrases
 * emotive writing, vocabulary with connotations (vocabulary connotes…), appeals to senses
 * pun
 * euphemisms
 * tone (colloquial, formal, humorous, sinister, ironic etc.)
 * atmosphere
 * dialogue, direct speech, indirect speech
 * allusion
 * structure
 * repetition, listing
 * comparatives and superlatives (better, best etc.)
 * title
 * contrast, oxymoron
 * juxtaposition
 * stanza, rhythm, rhyme, internal rhyme, eye rhyme, enjambment, caesura
 * narrative point-of-view - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person narrator
 * symbols, symbolism, motifs
 * text conventions of genre e.g. statistics to persuade, abbreviations, proverbs, quotations etc.
 * syntax (sentence types – simple, compound, complex, minor, periodic, parallel construction etc.)
 * Word order (inversion, e.g. never was there a…)
 * phrase, clause
 * verb tense (present, past etc.), imperative, present participle (running, crying etc.)
 * noun
 * adjective
 * adverb
 * modifier
 * pronoun, 1st, 2nd, 3rd personal pronouns (We, our – inclusive pronouns; you, your)
 * contrast, antithesis
 * dialogue, direct and indirect speech
 * structure (stanzas, paragraphs, circular ending etc.)
 * punctuation for effect (exclamation mark, ellipsis, absence of punctuation)
 * writer’s purpose, writer’s stance, position
 * effect of language feature(s) on reader (makes us feel…)



The windowpane reading strategy

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 * Audience and purpose || Content ideas ||
 * Language features || Structure and organisation ||
 * Windowsill analysis: ||