Edexcel A level
English Language
Terminology with
correct answers
2025/2026
Abstract noun - correct answersNaming word for an idea, concept, something non tangible e.g
'love'
Acronym - correct answersWords created by the initials of other words
Active verb - correct answersA word that represents a physical action e.g 'jumping'
Adjective - correct answersA word that modifies a noun
Adverb - correct answersDescribing word that modifies all word groups excluding nouns
Allusion - correct answersTo refer to something indirectly or metaphorically
Ambiguity - correct answersWhere there can be more than one possible meaning or outcome in
a story
, Analogy - correct answersExplaining something in terms of something else
Anthropomorphism - correct answersWhen an animal takes on the characteristics of a human
being
Antithesis - correct answersWhen ideas contrast or oppose one another
Archaic language - correct answersWords that have fallen out of common usage
Assonance - correct answersThe repetition of a vowel sound
Asyndetic listing - correct answersThe listing of elements that excludes any form of coordinating
conjunction. Absence of conjunction or prefix
Attitudes - correct answersThe opinions expressed in the text
Audience - correct answersThe relationship between writers/speakers and readers/listeners
Auxiliary verb - correct answersWord that often has to go with another verb to create present
participles or future tense e.g 'I am going'
Binary opposites - correct answersTwo words that are opposite ends of notational scale e.g 'hot'
and 'cold'
Clipping - correct answersColloquial omission of parts of words to create a more causal
alternative e.g 'cause'
English Language
Terminology with
correct answers
2025/2026
Abstract noun - correct answersNaming word for an idea, concept, something non tangible e.g
'love'
Acronym - correct answersWords created by the initials of other words
Active verb - correct answersA word that represents a physical action e.g 'jumping'
Adjective - correct answersA word that modifies a noun
Adverb - correct answersDescribing word that modifies all word groups excluding nouns
Allusion - correct answersTo refer to something indirectly or metaphorically
Ambiguity - correct answersWhere there can be more than one possible meaning or outcome in
a story
, Analogy - correct answersExplaining something in terms of something else
Anthropomorphism - correct answersWhen an animal takes on the characteristics of a human
being
Antithesis - correct answersWhen ideas contrast or oppose one another
Archaic language - correct answersWords that have fallen out of common usage
Assonance - correct answersThe repetition of a vowel sound
Asyndetic listing - correct answersThe listing of elements that excludes any form of coordinating
conjunction. Absence of conjunction or prefix
Attitudes - correct answersThe opinions expressed in the text
Audience - correct answersThe relationship between writers/speakers and readers/listeners
Auxiliary verb - correct answersWord that often has to go with another verb to create present
participles or future tense e.g 'I am going'
Binary opposites - correct answersTwo words that are opposite ends of notational scale e.g 'hot'
and 'cold'
Clipping - correct answersColloquial omission of parts of words to create a more causal
alternative e.g 'cause'
