Is there a GCSE Eng Lang glossary book for literary techniques you can buy?

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My dc seem to have words I’ve never heard of in their practise papers- anthropomorphism anyone?

I bought ds one from Amazon, he's in year 11 but did his literature last year so just has language this year. He said that he needed some help so I got it and he's not bothered with it. I'm out at the minute but once I'm home I will find out what it's called.

Can't wait for these exams to be over

There are loads and board specific- Amazon is your friend

Anthropomorphism is a relatively common linguistic device along the same lines as personification.

Make sure that you’ve got the right one for your board, yes.

But also be a bit careful because at this stage learning a lot of new technical terms can backfire into students “technique spotting” in exams as opposed to reading carefully. This is something that the examiners are really against.

It’s just as good for a candidate to describe anthropomorphism- eg the verb “slumbered” makes the house sound like it’s a sleeping person.

That’s encouraging. He’s year 10 so is that still ok to learn a bit more of the terminology?

Why don’t they just use personification?Ive got an Eng Lit degree and frankly found some of the questions he has brought home tricky. So much new jargon I’ve never heard of.😩How on earth do kids with SEN do this exam?

Everything you learnt on your English lit degree is still the most important stuff. The real issue for kids in these new Lang and lit GCSEs is getting them to read and understand unseen texts in exam conditions, esp as you say, for kids with SEN.

He’s got loads of time and will be fine - learning terminology is fairly straightforward. Reading - that’s the crucial thing.