Toolbox

Specialist terminology is essential for all subjects. How can a scientist describe empirical phenomena with any precision without words like picometer - one trillionth of a meter - or tetraquark an exotic elementary particle?

Students of English need them, admirers of English hoard them, lovers of English use them.

But how often have you stood clueless in a supermarket aisle having forgotten your shopping list? They are inherently forgettable things, lists. Shopping lists eminently so. At least you can always default to the pizza cooler. 

The Toolbox is a resource I created to categorise English and literary critical terminology. Rather easier to envisage and recall than an alphabetical list of terms applicable to a heterogeneous array of language events (sorry got carried away with the particle physics discourse there) is this terminology toolbox.

It doesn't have a linguistic tool to fix every descriptive, analytical or discursive problem but it will keep your essays and extended responses on the road long enough to get to A* up to GCSE level.