key words

 

• Magenta: Magenta is a color that is variously defined as purplish-red, reddish-purple or mauvish-crimson 

• Alchemy:  A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity.

• Reddened:  make or become red.

• Chimes:    to make a musical and especially a harmonious sound.

• Whitby: Whitby is a seaside town in Yorkshire, northern England, split by the River Esk.

• Frantically:  in a distraught way owing to fear, anxiety, or other emotion.

• Comet: a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a ‘tail’ of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.

• Eerie: strange and frightening.

• Subordinate clause: is the one relies on the main clause to make sense 

• Compound clauses are when you joined to or more main clauses with a connective 

• The main clause is a clause that contains subjects, objects, and verbs 

• A complex sentence is when you join a main clause + subordinate clause using a connectives 

• A simple sentence has one clause, verb, subjects 

• Monosyllabic contains one syllable

• An adjective describes a noun  

• Adverb a word that changes verb, adjectives, adverbs 

• Alliteration is the same letters sounds beginning words next to each other 

• Omontopea is when the word sound imitates the sound it is describing 

• Sibilance is the repetition of ‘s’ sound 

• Assonance is when two or more word next to each other repeats the same vowels 

• Emotive language is when language is used to create stronger emotions 

• Figurative is the use of the figure of speech to be more effective 

• Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.

• Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

• A simile is the comparison of one thing with a thing of a different kind 

• Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.

• Symbolism I the representation of an idea, emotion, feeling with something else 

• The difference between anthropomorphism and personification is that anthropomorphism is when something inhuman actually does human-like things; personification creates imagery where something inhuman seems human.

• Pun: a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

• A cliche is the overuse of a phrase or opinion 

• Parenthetical remark: is the one that explains or qualifies something 

• Idiom:  a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light ).

• A noun phrase never contain a verb 

• Pathetic fallacy: is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. 

• Pathos when language creates pity and sadness

•  Pseudocode is a way to write algorithms using code like statements 

• Rectangle

• A process.

• Oval

• Start or end of a program.

• Diamond

• A decision.

• Parallelogram

• Input or output.

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