KNOWLEDGE

Year 8 terminology list

Below you will find a list of all the terminology that you’ll be tested on in Year 8 in your Knowledge Checks. This list is also included in your Progress Book. Terms which are new for Year 8 are listed in bold.

Grammar and syntax terms

  • adjective

  • adverb

  • complex sentence

  • compound sentence

  • conjunction

  • declarative sentence

  • determiner

  • exclamatory sentence

  • imperative sentence

  • interrogative sentence

  • main clause

  • modal verb

  • noun

  • object (of a sentence)

  • participles (past and present)

  • preposition

  • pronoun

  • relative clause

  • simple sentence

  • subject (of a sentence)

  • subordinate clause

  • tense (present, past, perfect and progressive)

  • verb

  • voice (active and passive)

Structure terms

  • climax

  • denouement

  • exposition

  • falling action

  • foreshadowing

  • inciting incident

  • juxtaposition

  • resolution

  • rising action

  • timeshift

Lexis and semantics terms

  • antonym

  • connotations

  • euphemism

  • figurative language

  • imagery

  • semantic field

  • synonym

Discourse terms

  • antagonist

  • biography

  • characterisation

  • conflict

  • direct address

  • direct speech

  • dramatic irony

  • fiction

  • form

  • indirect speech

  • narrative voice

  • novel

  • paragraph

  • pathetic fallacy

  • prose

  • protagonist

  • suspense

  • symbolism

  • tension

  • unreliable narrator

Poetry and drama terms

  • aside

  • blank verse

  • caesura

  • couplet

  • end-stop

  • enjambment

  • free verse

  • length (of a verse line)

  • metre

  • quatrain

  • rhyme scheme

  • speaker

  • staging and stage directions

  • stanza

  • verse

Rhetorical devices terms

  • alliteration

  • assonance

  • consonance

  • extended metaphor

  • listing

  • metaphor

  • onomatopoeia

  • oxymoron

  • personification

  • repetition

  • rule of three

  • sibilance