Terminology

• Noun- a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things. (Team/abstract noun)
• Adjective- a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
• Verb- a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen. (Passive/active)
• Adverb- a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ).
• Pronoun- a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).
• Clause-
  a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate
• Repetition- the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
• Personification- the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
• Rhetorical question- a question that you ask without expecting an answer.
• Onomatopeia- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).
• Simile- a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).
• Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• Pathetic Fallacy- the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.
• Jargon- subject specific language-
• Preposition- a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in ‘the man on the platform’, ‘she arrived after dinner’, ‘what did you do it for ?’