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.
What is an auxiliary verb
A verb which is used in conjunction with another in order to create a present participle or future tense
What is a modal verb
An auxiliary verb which expresses a degree of necessity or pssibility
Define superlative
A superlative is a word which is the “best” of something
What is a comparative
A comparative is a word which relates to another object, and usually ends in -er.
What is the definite article
The.
What is the indefinite article
A, or an.
What is the second person pronoun
You.
What is a possessive pronoun
My, min, his, hers etc.
What is a demonstrative pronoun
This, that, these
What is register?
The level of formality of a text
What is tenor
The tone or relationship between a reader and writer.
Define context
Contextual features are external factors which affect the meaning of a text
What is a colloquialism
A colloquialism is informal language use in a text.
What is a rhetorical question
A question which doesn’t require an answer
What is hypophora
Where a rhetorical question is answered.
Define hyperbole
Hyperbole is the over exaggeration of hinge for effect
What is litotes
The under exaggeration of something for effect
What is premodification
It is the use of descriptive words before a noun
What is post modification
It is the use of descriptive words after a noun.
What is a simile
It is a phrase which states that something is like another thing.
Is an analogy
It is where something is explained in the terms of something else
What is a pathetic fallacy
Where the environment mirrors emotions
What is an acronym
A word which is created by using the initials of another word, such as boat, NATO etc.
What is archaic language
Words that have fallen out of use due to their age and the fact that they are not applicable in modern society
What is a connoation
The meaning behind words
What is a denotation
The literal meaning behind words
What are paralinguistic features
Body language
What are prosodic features
The use of things such as stress in spoken language
What is a vocative
A direct reference to another in spoken language
Accent
The specific way words are pronounced according to geographical region
Adjacency pair
Two utterances by different speakers that have a natural and logical link
Adjectival phrase
A phrase with an adjective as its head (very big)
Adverbial phrase
A phrase with an adverb at its head (very quickly)
Agency
The responsibility for an action
Alliteration
A sequence of words beginning with the same sound
Anaphoric referencing
Referencing back to an already stated term
Antonymy
Words with opposite semantic value
Auxiliary verb
A verb that supports or helps another, showing tense or possibility
Cataleptic referencing
Referencing forwards in a sentence
Cohesion
How well the text fits together
Colloquialism
An established set of informal terms used everyday
Comparative
A comparison of two items, adjectives with -er or more
Complex sentence
A sentence containing a main clause with one or more subordinate clauses
Compound sentence
A sentence containing two or more main clauses, connected by punctuation or conjunctions
Connotation
An associated meaning behind words
