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Formal english language Flashcards

1
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Temporal dialect

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Time period of the speaker

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Regional dialect

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geographical region

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sociolect

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Social group

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Standard/Non standard language

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Range of intelligibility

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Idiolect

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Unique speech patterns

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6
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Ethnolects

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Ethnic dialect

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7
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The types of registers

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Highly formal, Formal, Semi-formal, Casual, Very casual, intimate.

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Phonological patterns RACORA

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Rhyme, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopeia, Rhythm, alliteration

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What is assonance?

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Vowel sounds that are similar in a sentence

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Consonance

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similar sounding consonances in a sentence

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Syntactic patterning

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Parallelism, antithesis, listing

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Morphological patterning acronym

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4C a sad bin

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Morphological patterning

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Creative word formation, collocation, compounding, contraction, acronym, shortening, archaism, diminutive, blend, initialism, neologism

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what is a diminutive?

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A shortening with a morpheme such as -a -i -e, heavily reduces formality

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what’s a metaphor?

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abstract ideas in concrete terms

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16
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what is animation?

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personification of inanimate objects

17
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what is irony?

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Say one thing but mean the other

18
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what is personification?

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Gives lifelike characteristics to animals and objects alike

19
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what is an oxymoron

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two opposing ideas

20
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what is a pun?

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A pun happens when a meaning isn’t decided for sure or confusion of word classes.

21
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How to identify an active sentence?

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A subject performing an action.

22
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how to identify a Passive sentence?

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A past tense verb followed by is am are was were be being been.

23
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What are the five social purposes?

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Maintain positive + negative face needs, reinforce social distance and authority, establish expertise, promote social harmony, negotiate negative taboos and clarity + manipulate.

24
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how does one talk about terms of expertise

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Jargon

25
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What does social harmony include?

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Inclusive language, politeness markers, non discriminative language.

26
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What does Mailpops stand for?

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Metaphor, animation, irony, lexical ambiguity, pun, oxymoron, personification, simile

27
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What are the first person pronouns?

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Me, us, our, we

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What are the second person pronouns?

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You, you all, yours

29
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What are the third person pronouns

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They, he/she

30
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The, A and An are examples of what word class?

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Determiners

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