Informal Tone Adjective
Comma Dash Paragraph
Simile Personality
What the author feels or wants the Language that is used for personal or
A word that is used to describe a noun,
reader to feel about something. Tone can casual purposes and is likely to feature
e.g. the red house
be humorous, dark or angry, for example colloquial expressions
A punctuation mark (–) used to indicate A punctuation mark (,) that is used to
A group of closely related sentences
an interruption to the main structure of a separate parts of a sentence or
that develop a central or main idea
sentence items/phrases in a list
A figure of speech in which two things
that are not obviously like each other are
compared to make a description more
What a person’s character
vivid. A simile will often begin with a
and behaviour are like
phrase introduced by ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g.
The smoke hung from the chimney like a
drooping flag.