Subject Specific Vocabulary: English

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to write notes or highlight textual details
atmopshere
feelings created by a writer's description of a setting
connotation
an idea or feeling linked to the main meaning of a word- what it implies or suggests in addition to its literal meaning (fire: connotations can be warmth, light, anger, etc.)
cliche
a very overused or unoriginal phrase
context
the historical circumstances of a piece of writing, which affect what an author wrote and why they wrote it
dialogue
where two or more characters are speaking to each other
first-person narrative
an account of events written from a personal point of view (so using 'I' or 'we' rather than 'he', 'she' or 'they')
fireshadow
to hint at what lies ahead, often in the sense of a warning
irony
the use of words to imply the opposite of, or something different from, what is said
metaphor
an imaginative comparison in which one thing is said to be another
omniscientall-seeing and all-knowing. The omniscient narrator of a story knows more than the reader about the situation and how it will developpacethe speed at which something happens, for example the speed at which the story developspatoisthe dialect (manner of speaking) of people from a particular area or regionpun'play on words' - the use of word with a double meaningsettingthe description of the time period and location a story is setsimilean imaginative comparison using 'like' or 'as'slanginformal languagesymbolismthe use of one thing to represent anotherthird-person narrativean account of events using (so using 'he', 'she' or 'they' rather than 'I' or 'we')viewpointthe position from which a character sees things