LANGUAGE FEATURES
Authors and storytellers choose words carefully. They choose words that will give more information to help the reader or listener understand the story. For example, the word crawled describes the way the serpent moved from beneath the Earth’s surface out into the open.
Language features enrich a story. That means they provide more detail to help the reader understand the story.
Language features enrich a story. That means they provide more detail to help the reader understand the story.
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NOUNS AND NOUN GROUPSA noun is a language feature that talks about people, places, ideas and things.
For example: Mother Snake. A noun group is a group of words that build on a noun. They usually have the small word ‘the’, ‘a’ or ‘an’ in them along with the noun and perhaps an adjective to describe the noun e.g. the massive multi-coloured serpent ADVERBSAdverbs tell how, when or where an action happens.
Many adverbs end with the letters –ly. For example: As she moved slowly — tells how the Rainbow Serpent moved. PREPOSITIONS & PRPOSITIONAL PHRASESPreposition — position — tell us the position of things.
For example: below, into, on top. Prepositional phrase is a group of words within a clause that contain a preposition. For example: She ran into the garden. DIRECT SPEECHDirect speech is a group of words which are repeated by someone other than the original author or writer. Direct speech is an exact copy of the original. It is shown by placing it between quotation marks.
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VERBSA verb tells us what is happening, what the noun is doing. They describe doing, being, having, thinking and saying and help us to know when (or the tense) something has happened — past, present or future.
The verb group is a group of words that centre on the verb. For example: was running, were telling. LINKING DEVICESLinking devices are like the glue that brings together information so that it makes sense.
Text connectives link sections of a text and provide sequence of time. For example: firstly, after, that. Pronouns (he, she, them, they) might be used instead of repeating someone’s name or the name of a place. ADJECTIVESAdjectives are describing words. Adjectives are added to nouns to describe what kind, what colour, which one or how many. Large, grey and friendly are all examples of adjectives. In the examples below, these adjectives are used to describe an elephant.
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SIMILIESA simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is likened or compared to another. This is usually done through the use of the word like or as.
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ONOMATOPOEIAOnomatopoeia is the use of words which imitate the sound they describe.
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