English Language 3.1 + 3.2 Flashcards
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Syntactic Patterning
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- Parallelism
- Antithesis
- Listing
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Parallelism
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- Repeated/mirrored structures
- Builds a semantic thread
- Builds momentum
- Makes text more memorable/powerful
- Draw focus
- Emphasise similarities/differences between sequences
- Efficient packaging
- Can be reinforced by repetition
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Antithesis
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- Deliberate, carefully packaged structures
- Provides strong contrast
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Listing
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- Layering
- Builds a semantic thread
- Careful packaging
- Provides a greater impact/is more powerful
- Sequence
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Passive Voice
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- Focus on action/grammatical subject
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Nominalisation
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- Turns verbs into nouns
- Creates lexical and syntactic density
- More concise and compact
- More sophisticated and elevated
- Introduces abstractness as there is no need for a subject - removes responsibility
- More authoritative and objective
- Concept becomes focus
- Can now be counted/described/classified/qualified
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Information Flow
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- Front Focus
- End Focus
- Clefting
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Clefting
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- It Clefts = Dummy Subject + V + S + Rel Clause
eg. It was John who kicked the ball - What Clefts = What + Subject Noun Clause + V + NP (Complement)
eg. What I want is a chocolate bar. - Leads to increased focus
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End Focus
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- Places material with higher communicative value at the end
- Moves grammatically complicated/heavily modified structures to the end
- Contributes to a more factual/authoritative tone, and reduces opportunity to challenge
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Existential Sentences
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- There/it as dummy subjects
- Keep new information to the end → end focus
- More authoritative/definite/objective tone
eg. There are many spiders in Australia.
It is sunny today.
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Front Focus
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- Highlights the beginning of the sentence and captures audience attention
- Initial Focus
- Places something other than the noun phrase at the start of the independent clause
- Front focus can occur on:
o Negative markers
o Adverbial phrases
o Adverbial clauses
o Past participles
o Comparatives
o Interrogatives
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Semantic Features
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- Denotation
- Connotation
- Figurative language
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Cohesion
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- Provides links within the text
- Ties together
- Provides reference back/forward
- Connects
- Condenses text to avoid unnecessary words/ repetition
- Acts as the glue within the text
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Features that Create Cohesion
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- Phonological patterning – connects through similar sounds
- Conjunctions and adverbial/conjunctive phrases – connect ideas, tie together and show relationship between ideas
- Hyponymy – provides a classification/hierarchy that highlights the relationship between general and specific
- Collocation – builds expectation and links lexemes in a familiar way
- Subject specific lexis – draws connection within the text
- Antonymy – tie together through contrast to build meaning
- Synonymy – connects, reinforces, add details and ties together
- Ellipsis – removes unnecessary words → creates inference/ assumption
- Syntactic patterning:
o Parallelism – mirrored structures efficiently package information and build semantic thread
o Antithesis – links sentence segments through contrast
o Listing – links sentence segments to build a layered package - Repetition – reinforces ideas to create links/ties and to bind
- Substitution:
– Noun phrase for noun phrase (eg. the tables and chairs… the furniture)
– Pronoun reference:
o Anaphoric – refers backwards
o Cataphoric – refers forwards → creates intrigue/suspense - Deictics – links text to time, place setting and contextual factors
- Information flow:
o Clefting – connect/link relationship
o Front focus – link by focussing on action
o Passive voice – link subject and agent*
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Coherence
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- Assists in the navigation of a text
- Provides a sense of consistency throughout the text
- Supports consistency of the domain
- Directs the reader
- Signposts
- Focuses
- Understanding
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Features that Create Coherence
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- Formatting:
o Headings – briefly outline the proceeding content, and direct readers
o Subheadings – provides greater detail to direct readers
o Bullet points – structured list to clearly set out information
o Tables – provide clearer presentation that is easily located
o Columns – present related information side by side
o Bolding/italics/underlining – aids understanding and presentation - Logical order – sequencing of content, and can link to hyponymy
- Inference – removes unnecessary information
- Consistency:
o Consistency of tense – grounds the discourse within a timeframe
o Consistency of semantic field – ensures an understanding of the domain
o Consistency of person – assists understanding - Conventions (headings, subheadings, bylines, salutations, closure, bullet points, and contact details) – fulfil readers’ expectations
- Cohesion – provides links within the text
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Noun Clauses
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- Type of dependant clause
- For example:
o What they saw was amazing
o I know that the oranges are juicy
o That is what I ordered
o I sold the book for what it was worth
o Who won the prize is still a mystery
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Gerunds
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- A noun phrase made from a verb root + ing
- For example:
o Swimming every day keeps you fit
o Working with schools to help students…
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Interrogative Pronouns
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- Who
- Whom
- Whose
- What
- Which
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Interrogative Adverbs
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- How
- Why
- When
- Where
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Phonological Features
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- Sound symbolism – harsher vs softer sounds
- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Consonance
- Onomatopoeia
- Rhythm and rhyme
- Accent
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Morphological Features
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- Older/classical affixes
- Compounding
- Acronyms
- Initialism
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Repetition
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- Reinforce
- Reiterate
- Strengthen
- Intensify
- Accentuate
- Highlight
- Underscore
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Pauses
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- Manipulation of tempo
- Draw focus
- Allow message to resonate, linger and penetrate
