Grammar Basics
Name of an object, person or place
What is a noun?
Comparing one thing directly to something else using like or as
What is a simile?
Two
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Information with lots of numbers
What is a statistic?
Punctuation used of someone is speaking
What are speech marks?
Describes a noun
What is an adjective?
Repetition of the first letter of two or more words
What is alliteration?
1hr45
How long is the exam?
information that can be proved to be true
What is a fact?
Needed at the start of a sentence
What is a capital letter?
A doing or being word
What is a verb?
Giving an object human qualities
What is personification?
Explorations in creative reading and writing
What is paper one?
Speaking to the reader
What is direct address?
Punctuation of three dots
What is an ellipsis?
Describes a verb
What is an adverb?
Language which exaggerates things
What is hyperbole?
Writers' viewpoints and perspectives
What is paper 2?
A question which doesn't require an answer and makes people think
What is a rhetorical question?
Punctuation used to show a pause in a sentence
What is a comma?
Words used instead of names
What are personal pronouns?
The repetition of s sounds
What is sibilance?
10
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A personal story to help interest the reader
What is an anecdote?
Connects two related but independent parts of sentences together
What is a semicolon?