Categorising Texts

Question 1

Abstract noun?

Answer 1

Idea of being or belief e.g tidiness, sadness, love

Question 2

Proper noun?

Answer 2

A naming word, names of places or people e.g rob, Eiffel Tower, Burnely, Wayne Rooney

Question 3

First person pronoun?

Answer 3

I an first person plural

E.g we, our, us

Question 4

Second person pronoun?

Answer 4

You

Question 5

Ellipsis

Answer 5

When parts of a written structure are missing
E.g do you see…..
…. He had gone

Question 6

Colloquialism?

Answer 6

Informal language used!

E.g bloke, fella, geeza, lass,bog

Question 7

Oxymoron

Answer 7

The use of apparantly contradicting words in a phrase!

E.g peaceful war, hot ice

Question 8

Binary oppositions?

Answer 8

Hot/ cold big/small

Question 9

Monosyllabic?

Answer 9

Words of one sylaballe

Question 10

Polysyllabic

Answer 10

Words of two of more sylaballes

Question 11

False starts?

Answer 11

The speaker realises the beginning of an utterance isn’t working so restarts by rephrasing

Question 12

Imperative

Answer 12

When issuing a command

Question 13

Declarative

Answer 13

When making a statement

Question 14

Interrogative?

Answer 14

When asking a question

Question 15

Exclamatory

Answer 15

Strong sense of emotion

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

When a word is spelt the same as the sound described

Kaboom, drip, plop, quack

Question 17

3rd person plural

Answer 17

Them, those

Question 18

3rd person pronoun

Answer 18

Him, her, she , it

Question 19

Possesive pronoun

Answer 19

My, mine, our, your, his, her, their

Question 20

Archaism

Answer 20

A word that over time has fallen out of common usage

Question 21

Overlaps

Answer 21

When one speaker interrupts another

Question 22

Non fluency features

Answer 22

Any feature which would suggest the speaker is non fluent

E.g stutter

Question 23

Elision

Answer 23

The omission of a vowel sound in the pronounciation of words
E.g t’other

Question 24

Homonym

Answer 24

When one words has multiple meanings!

E.g great can mean size and positivity

Question 25

Glottal stops

Answer 25

The omission of sounds in the middle of words

E.g butter, letter, better

Question 26

Latch ons

Answer 26

When a speaker takes their turn immediately after the person without a pause!
This can be done to show dominance

Question 27

Fillers?

Answer 27

The insertion of words, phrases or noises into a speech

E.g like, y’know, sort of, right

Question 28

Juxtaposition

Answer 28

The placing together of elements whether complimentary or contrasting

Question 29

Para linguistic features

Answer 29

Body language, facial expressions, laughing, sigh, whisper

Question 30

Turn taking

Answer 30

Co-ordinated cooperation between 2 or more people

Question 31

Dyphemism

Answer 31

An unneccesery extreme way of saying something could include taboo language

Question 32

Euphemism

Answer 32

The polite way of saying something usually innapropriate
E.G “I need a tinkle”
“He’s pushing up Daisy’s”

Question 33

Metaphor?

Answer 33

A comparison that states something is actually something else.
“Take a lead out of her book”
“I’m a demon driver”

Question 34

Adjaceny pair

Answer 34

A moment in turn taking where an response is followed by an answer in some way
E.g question leads to answer

Question 35

Sarcasm

Answer 35

The use of language in an ironic way usually to offend someone

Question 36

Back channeling

Answer 36

The process of giving feedback through encouraging noises and positive comments
I.e “yeah” or “I agree”

Question 37

Tripling

Answer 37

Rule of three, using 3 expressions sharply in a row

I came, I saw, I conquered

Question 38

Topic shifter

Answer 38

An utterance that leads conversation elsewhere

Question 39

Pre modification

Answer 39

A descriptive technique where the descriptive technique comes before the word it’s describing
E.g “big fat” wod of cash

Question 40

Post modification

Answer 40

Where the descriptive words come after the words there describing
E.g the wod of cash, big and fat

Question 41

Repetition

Answer 41

Repeating of words or phrases

Question 42

Rhetorical question

Answer 42

A question designed not to be answered perhaps to make a point

Question 43

Collocations

Answer 43

Words we know naturally go with each other e.g fish and chips, knife and fork

Question 44

Connotation

Answer 44

What we can perceive from words

Question 45

Denotation

Answer 45

The literal meaning of the words

Question 46

Hyperbole

Answer 46

Deliberate over exaggeration

Question 47

Assonance

Answer 47

Repetition of vowel sounds

E.g. You should wear a hood while you chop the wood good

Question 48

Consonance

Answer 48

The repetition of double consonants in the middle of the word! E.g “is better buy more butter before I go out”

Question 49

Tag question

Answer 49

A question tagged onto the end of a statement

E.g it’s cold outside isn’t it

Question 50

Common noun?

Answer 50

Tangable item e.g chair, penguin, man