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