Terminology

• Noun - a word used to identify a person, place, thing or idea.
• Verb - a doing word.
• Adverb - a word that describes a verb, usually ending in 'ly'.
• Adjective - a describing word.
• Simile - a comparing technique, usually using 'like' or 'as'.
• Metaphor - saying something is something else.
• Personification - giving an inanimate object human-like qualities.
• Onomatopoeia - words that sound like the associated noise, such as 'boom'.
• Pathetic fallacy - where the weather relates to the mood.
• Fillers - pauses, like 'um'.
• Jargon - subject specific language.
• Hyperbole - over exaggeration.
• Juxtaposition -  two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
• Oxymoron - a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
• Litotes - understatement when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary.
• Triples - a set of three words.
• Punctuation - the marks used to separate sentences and identify meaning, such as ""-()!?...,:;.
• Dialect - the language of a specific region or social group.
• Accent - the way the words sound.
• Synonym - a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example 'shut' is a synonym of 'close'.
• Antonym - a word opposite in meaning to another.
• Abstract noun - a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
• Collective noun - a count noun that denotes a group of individuals.
• Passive - denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb, such as 'they were killed' instead of, he killed them.
• Clause - part of a sentence.
• Alliteration - the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or close together words.
• Rhetorical question - a question that is asked without expecting an answer.
• Repetition - the recurrence of words.
• Active verb - a verb that specifically describes what the subject of the sentence is doing.