Jargon
Jargon is specialist language that is specific to an activity, hobby, profession, academic subject, or trade. In order for specialist language to be considered ‘jargon’ it needs to exclude people who don’t understand it.
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Direct Speech [DS]
Direct speech is a type of speech presentation that indicates that you are repeating the actual words of another person. You do this by surrounding the speech in punctuation (usually quotation marks or inverted commas) and using a reporting clause (such as “she said”).
Blank Verse
Blank verse is when you have lines of poetry that have a regular metre but no rhyme scheme. You use it to talk about poetry and plays that use verse.
Verbal Irony
Verbal irony is when someone says something that goes against the reality of their situation. They say it in a way that is noticeable to the people listening to them.
Text
In literary theory, a text is anything that we can use to communicate information, messages, stories, ideas and feelings. It can be consumed, analysed, interpreted and understood by us and other people.
Feature Spotting
Feature spotting is a BAD thing to do in your essays. It’s when you pick out the devices or terminology that you can find in a text without analysing what the text producer is doing.
Assessment Objective [AO]
An assessment objective (shortened to AO) is a skill that examiners will be assessing you for in your exams.
Contraction
A contraction is a type of abbreviation that skips letters in a word or phrase to create a single, shorter word. It will usually use an apostrophe to show that letters are missing.
Abbreviation
An abbreviation is a shorter version of a word or phrase.