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What is genre?

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Literary genres of prose, poetry and drama or types of content

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Whatever are 2 different types of mode?

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Speech and writing

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What is a hybrid form of communication that is based off of the 2 modes?

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Mobile communication (texting)

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What are meanings of texts?

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Messages that are communicated in texts

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What are representations?

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How something appears to be not what it actually is

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6
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What is graphology?

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All the visual aspects of textual design

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What is lexis?

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Vocabulary of a language

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What is morphology?

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Aspects of grammar that refers to grammatical markers

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What does a multimodal text do?

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Combine more than one mode in a text

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10
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What is an antonym?

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A word that means the opposite

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What are phonetics?

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Physical production and reception of sound

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What is phonology?

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Study about all the sounds of a particular language

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What are pragmatics?

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Study of words used in a particular context to create a meaning

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What are semantics?

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The meanings of words and expressions or meaning in a broader sense

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What is the term given to how words are arranged, or word order typical of a language?

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Syntax

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16
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How do adjectives support nouns?

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Give extra information and describe the qualities of nouns

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What do adverbs give more information about?

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Verbs

18
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What is a semantic pattern?

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A cluster of words throughout a text that have similar meanings and uses

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What is a discourse?

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A stretch of language about a topic considered in its context of use

20
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What is the term that defines a person or thing that is the direct opposite?

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The antithesis

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What is the discourse structure?

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The internal structure of a text

22
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What do pronouns replace?

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Nouns

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What is a semantic field?

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A group of terms from the same domain (eg. Names for food)

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How is tense determined?

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By verbs that indicate time

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