Year 7 Metalanguage

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The ways in which aspects of texts (such as words, sentences, images) are arranged and how they affect meaning.
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Consists of a noun as a major element, alone or accompanied by one or more modifiers.
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What is the term that describes an intended group of people that a writer, designer, filmmaker or speaker is addressing?
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An environment in which a text is responded to or created. It can include social, historical, political or cultural. The term is also used to refer to a wording surrounding an unfamiliar word.
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A way in which information is organized in different types of texts (for example; chapter headings, subheadings, tables of contents, indexes and glossaries, overviews etc.).
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What is the term used to describe a spatial arrangement of print and graphics on a page or screen including size of font, positioning of illustrations, inclusion of captions, labels, heading, bullet points, borders and text boxes.
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Repeating the consonant sounds at the beginning of words to make them stand out.
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Movements or positions of a body, which expresses thoughts or feelings.
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Refers to the viewpoint of an author, audience or characters in a text.
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An area of meaning having to do with possibility, probability, obligation and permission.
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Develop and/or produce spoken, written or multimodal texts in print or digital forms.
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A long speech or discourse given by a single character in a story, movie, play or by a performer.
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This is a rhetorical device. It is when there is a repeated: word, a phrase, a full sentence or a poetical line to emphasise its significance.
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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
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Giving inanimate objects human qualities.
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What is the term used to discuss language conventions and use (for example language used to talk about grammatical terms such as ‘sentence’, ‘clause’, ‘conjunction’)?
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A means for communication. Their forms and conventions have developed to help us communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for a range of purposes. They could be written, spoken or multimodal in print or digital/online forms.
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Features of language that support meaning (for example, sentence structure, noun group/phrase, vocabulary, punctuation, figurative language).
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A figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another. Example ‘He drowned in a sea of grief’.
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The placement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side by side for a particular purpose (for example, to highlight contrast or for rhetorical effect).