Formal Features Flashcards
Passive voice
focus on [object/action/grammatical subject]
indirect, less personal
ellipsis of agent (agentless) - indirect, ambiguous, avoiding responsibly, hiding, less personal, increases social distance
OR remove unnecessary repetition –> cohesion
Listing
Layered
Packaged
Sequenced
Builds
Semantic thread
considered, planned, more complicated
–> cohesion
Parallelism
efficiently packages ideas into mirrored structures (can be engagin
Same semantic thread of ____
Layered
Packaged
*describe which word classes/phrases are repeated
Cohesion
Link
Connect
Bind
Relationship
Association
Coherence
FLICC word
Understanding of
Comprehend
Navigate
Orientate
Access
Fronting
Creates focus/emphasis
Draws initial attention to
Prefaces
Antithesis
efficiently package (opposite) ideas into mirrored structures
Front focus
- highlight beginning of sentence
- greater prominence for elements that usually come later
- places something other than subject noun phrase that would usually come later
- get audience’s attention
–> cohesion
List Coherence features
FLICCc
Formatting (and layout)
Logical Ordering
Inference
Consistency and conventions
(cohesion)
Elevated lexemes
sophisticated, professional
Nominalisation
carefully planned and crafted
refined, elevated, professional
List Syntactic Patterning features
PAL
Parallelism
Antithesis
Listing
Synonymy
Tie together
Reinforce
–> Coherence
Alliteration
Phonological patterning
Connect ideas/string together
–> Cohesion
Signposting
Draw together ideas/sentences
Link
Connecting ideas/sentences
–> cohesion
