Technical terms for paper 1 AQA English Lang GCSE

What type of words are "slowly", "moodily" and "grumpily"?

• Similes
• Adjectives - describing words
• Adverbs.  They describe how a verb action is done.
• Descriptive words

How long should you spend on each question mark?

• about a minute

• 2 minutes

• 3 minutes

• 4 minutes.

Plop, whizz, bang are examples of

Lennon licked a lollipop. What technique is this?

What type of words are "run", "jumped", "slept", "trembled" and "shivered"?

• Descriptive words
• Adjectives - describing words.
• Verbs
• Personification

What type of words are "happy", "long", "green", "wobbly" and "dried"?

• Adjectives
• Verbs (doing or action words)
• Metaphors
• Adverbs

How many marks for p1 Q4?

What would be used in a second person narrative?

• I

• we

• you

• he/she

What is a metaphor?
(Example: What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.)

• A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• 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 ).
• The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

What is a discourse marker?

• A comma with a full stop over the top of it.  Like this ;
• A discourse marker is a word or phrase that plays a role in managing the flow and structure of a piece of writing.
• A paragraph's opening sentence.
• A sort of bookmark.