Glossary Flashcards
Collocations
Words that naturally go together e.g. fire and ice
Colloquialism
Informal language use
Compound word
bone-head
Connotations and denotations
Connotations- associations from words
Denotations- Literal meanings
Determiners
precede nouns and relate directly to them ‘I want that pen’
Fronting
Emphasis of putting word or phase at the beginning
Gerund
ing suffix
Homonym
one word with multiple meanings
Idiom
a saying, cliche
Morpheme
’s’ denotes quantitative meaning
Parenthesis
Separates extra information in brackets, dashes and two commas
Past perfect tense
‘have’ in the past tense. often used in flashbacks e.g. ‘i had gone out’
Anaphoric
reference to something that happened earlier in the text
Register
Level of formality in a text
Sentence meetings
Complex- simple sentence with a clause that adds extra information linked with a sub-ordinate conjunction
Compound- two simple sentences joined together
Minor- missing a subject or verb
Sentence moods
Imperative
interrogative
exclamatory
declarative
Superlative
adjective that displays the most extreme of quality- furthest, farthest
Synonym
Alternative word choice for something
Tenor
tone of voice or relationship between author and reader
Terminus
end of sentence
Analepsis
A flashback
Exposition
Background of the characters and information before the plot sets off
Mimesis
A story may mimic the sound of breathing through short sentences
Prolepsis
a flashforward
Third person omniscient narrator
A God like voice telling a story with multiple characters
Verisimilitude
Appearance of being true or real in a fictional story. A created version to seem real enough but with dramatic purposes
Jargon
Language that ppl with a certain understanding will only understand
Deixis
Referencing a speaker and addressee
Elision
Omission of sounds and syllabes in speech eg i’m
Turn-taking
Convo when other person listens to the other speak and vise versa
phatic language
Speech used for emotive purposes rather than to communicating information
Discourse markers
‘right’ ‘okay’ ‘now’ ‘well’
loose structures
‘i was there and i saw you..’
elliptical utterance
Don’t blame you, omit part of structure
non-fluency features
fillers, unintentional repetition, etc
Amelioration
making something better, so a word has a nicer meaning now
Pejoration
the downgrading of a word
Co-Ordination
two or more independent clauses being joined by co-ordinating conjunction
Sub-Ordination
Joining of two or more clauses where only one is independent
Cataphoric Reference
Reference to something yet to be identified in the text. ‘It was living, it was uncle George’
Assertives
Declaratives, authority with it
Directive
A command
Commisives
Talking about what you will do
