KEY VOCAB Flashcards

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Eupherism/Dyspherism

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Making a situation seem less/more cruel

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Ideology

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Attitudes and point of view

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Archaic / Neologistic

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Older /Newer language

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4
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Hyperbolic / Polysylabic

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Exaggerated language / Technical language

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5
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Latinate / Anglo Saxon

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Formal & expertise / Informal & blunt

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Ecopherism

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A nicer or softer way of saying something

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Overt / Covert prestige

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Traditional way of expressing power

Rebellious way to express power often in a marginalised group

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Modifiers

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Adverbs or Adjectives

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9
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Abstract noun

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Concepts or emotions

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Adverbial phrase

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Saying when or how something happened
(quickly or yesterday)

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Determiners

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Small words which describe nouns (a,the,some)

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Preposition

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Describes tbe relationships between things

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13
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Conjunction

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Links part of a sentence

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14
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Possessive pronoun

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Suggests ownership to what’s been mentioned

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15
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Copy / Form

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Written text or advertisement / Particular type of writing

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16
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Signiture line

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Bottom line summary at the end of an advertisement

17
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Demographic/Psycographic

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Shows the background & facts of a person / Shows the beliefs and attitude of a person

18
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Deixis

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Words that signal the context of speech

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Elision

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Missing out sounds of a word

20
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Discourse marker

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A word that signals a subject change

21
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Ellipsis

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Words missed off writing