Keywords And Definitions - English Flashcards
Define accent
Regional or social language variations.
Define agreement
Grammatical logic and coherence between parts of a sentence.
Define alliteration
The repetition of consonants at the start of a word
Define assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in words.
What is the perceived audience
It is the audience which the writer/ speaker made the text for.
What is the actual audience
The actual audience are the people who actually see the article or hear the speech.
What is a clause?
A clause is a unit of language larger than a phrase that contains a verb.
Define grapheme
A grapheme is the smallest unit in written language.
What is a homonym
Where two words have the same spelling but different meanings.
What is intonation
Intonation is the use of pitch in speech to show differences.
Define Jargon
Jargon is technical language
Define lexis
Lexis is the vocabulary used in a text
What is a metaphor
A metaphor is a construction where one ing is described as another
Define metonymy
Metonymy is where an attribute of something is substituted for the whole thing
Define morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest unit of grammatical meaning
What is morphology
Morphology is the study of the structure of words
Define onomatopoeia
It is a word that sounds like the thing it is describing, such as crash.
Define oxymoron
An oxymoron is where two contradictory terms are used in speech.
What are phonetics
The production, transmission and reception of speech
What is a preposition
A preposition is a word which commonly comes before a noun or pronoun
What is Received Pronunciation
It is regionally neutral British English
Define slang
Slang is the use of non standard words, usually regional
Define semantics
Semantics ins the study of meaning of words.
Define Abbreviation
Where letters or a shortened word are used in exchange for a word.
