Literacy Encylco-Media

 

Adjective - describes something or someone e.g. a busy day, a beautiful girl

 

Alliteration - Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse e.g. Sea sell sea she shells on the sea shore

 

Compound words - a word made up of two other words: football, headrest, broomstick.

 

Digraph - two letters representing one phoneme: bath; train; ch/ur/ch.

 

Fiction - text which is invented by a writer or speaker, some elements may be factual ie the text may be based on a historical event

 

Grapheme - letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols in any language

 

Metaphor where the writer writes about something as if it were really something else. Fowler describes it as an 'imaginative substitution'. For example: he is an ass; love's meteor. A poisoned apple passed along from generation to generation (McGough).

 

Narrative - text which re-tells events, often chronological. Maybe purely fictional ir include some in formation

 

Noun - a word that denotes somebody or something - sister, brother, dog, clock

 

Onomatpopeia - words that imitate the sound they denote e.g. ting, plop, whoosh

 

Personification - a form of metaphor in which language relating to human action, motivation and emotion is used to refer to non-human agents or objects or abstract concepts: the weather is smiling on us today; Love is blind.

 

Phoneme - A phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit of sound in a word. There are approximately 44 phonemes in English. e.g. to  shoe through

Pro-noun - Personal - I, me, you, him, she, he, they, them, it etc. See DfES for more Pr--nouns

 

Proper Noun - names of people, places, organisations etc. Mr Brown, London, September

 

Shape Poems - a poem in which the layout of the words reflects an aspect of the subject. There is a huge variety of shape poems

 

Trigraph - three letters representing one phoneme: high; fudge.

 

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