Form
Also called Free verse, Dramatic monologue, Ballad
The kind of poem it is, and the shape it takes on the page.
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Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers
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19 terms filed under F, showing 11–19 (page 2 of 2).
F
Formal elements
Line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour and form. The vocabulary for describing any image.
Free early education
Government-funded hours for young children, and how entitlement has expanded.
Free indirect speech
Third-person narration that slides into a character's own voice.
Free school meals
Also called FSM, Universal infant free school meals
Meals paid for by the state, on a means test — and separately, for all infants regardless of income.
Freedom of information and subject access
Two ways to get information out of a school or council. They are not the same request.
Frequency trees and two-way tables
Two ways of organising counts across two categories.
Functional Skills
Practical English, maths and digital qualifications, at levels below and alongside GCSE.
Functions and graph transformations
A rule taking an input to an output, and what happens when you shift or stretch it.
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