Glossary (Version 8.4)

A word, phrase, part of a sentence or line of verse that is repeated to emphasise its significance. Repetition can be used as a rhetorical device.

Engaging with a literary text. ‘Responding’ involves identifying, selecting, describing, comprehending, imagining, interpreting, analysing and evaluating.

Reconstruction, based on research, of the way in which Classical Greek or Latin is believed to have been spoken in ancient times.

Language designed deliberately to evoke emotion or persuade an audience (for example, imagery, metaphors, repetition, rhetorical questions).

A word/word element that cannot be reduced to a smaller unit, and from which other words are formed, for example, duc in reducere.