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What is a cacophony? What is a euphony?

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Unpleasant sounds e.g ‘the poem sounds cacophonised’

-euphony means the opposite- pleasant sounds

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What does a premodifier do?

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It’s a word before a noun, can add or take away value from something e.g ‘dull coins’, dull= the premodifier, takes away value from the coins

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What is an abstract noun?

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A naming idea for an idea/ concept e.g tiredness

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What is an active verb?

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A word that represents a physical action e.g run

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What is a stative verb?

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A word that represents a process that is often mental e.g think, love, belive

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What is an modal verb?

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A word that expresses a degree of possiblity e.g might, could, would

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What is a superlative?

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An adjective that expresses the most extreme value of it’s quantity e.g most, biggest, smallest

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What word is a definite article?

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The

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What words are indefinite articles?

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A/An

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What are third person pronouns?

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She, he, they, it

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What are examples of possessive pronouns?

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Mine, my, ours, his, hers

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What are demonstrative pronouns?

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This, that, thoes

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What is Monosyllabic lexis?

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Words that are one syllable e.g I, yes, door

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What is Polysyllabic lexis?

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Words of two or more syllables e.g, hello, curtain

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What is an exclamatory sentence mood?

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When a sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion,
sense of alarm or overly strong emphasis.

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What is an Imperative sentence mood?

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When a sentence is issuing a comand

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Define register

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The level of formality of a text

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Define tenor

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The tone

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What is content?

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What the text is about

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Define form

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The structure and shape of a text

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What is colloquialism?

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Informal language usage e.g bloke, aight, bog

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Define hyperbole

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A deliberate over exaggeration of something for effect

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Define litotes

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A deliberate down playing of things for effect

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What is pre-modification? Use an example

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A descriptive technique where the descriptive words come before the thing they are describing e.g BIG, horse

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What is post-modification? Use an example.

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A descriptive technique where the descriptive words the are describing come AFTER the thing they are describing. E.g the horse, BIG and FAT, ran across the field

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What are Collocations?

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Words that through usage, just go together e.g fish and chips

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What is consonance?

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The repetition of double consonants in the middle of words e.g ‘i’d better buy this butter’

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What is assonance?

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The repetition of vowel sounds e.g “you SHOULD wear a HOOD”

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What’s a statvie verb?

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Describes opinions, emotions and beliefs eg want

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Haptics

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Anything to do with touch

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Proxemics

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Movement in relation to others

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Kinesics

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Body/ face movements

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Dramatic irony

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When the reader knows more then the characters

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Declatrivites

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Statements- not commands

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Gothic suburbia

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The idea that danger is close

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Ellipsis in spoken language

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Missing out entire words from an utterance

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Idiolect

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An individuals way of speaking- dialect, accent, sociolect

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Voiced hesitation

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Words like umm and err used to fill a pause in a conversation

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Jargon

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Specific language which non experts don’t understand- eg doctors using big words

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Dialect

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Word choice- eg wood log or cheese log

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Utterance

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Basically sentances but in dialogue

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Tag question

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A statement followed by a question- You are going to attend this uni talk, aren’t you?

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Adjacency pair

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A complete exchange of talking, responding to a question- Do you want some chips? Yes please

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Disprefferd responses

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Unexpected responses- How old are you? Green

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Preferred responses

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An expected respond- How old are you? 16

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