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Keywords And Definitions - English Flashcards

1
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Define accent

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Regional or social language variations.

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2
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Define agreement

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Grammatical logic and coherence between parts of a sentence.

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3
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Define alliteration

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The repetition of consonants at the start of a word

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4
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Define assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in words.

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5
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What is the perceived audience

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It is the audience which the writer/ speaker made the text for.

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What is the actual audience

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The actual audience are the people who actually see the article or hear the speech.

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What is a clause?

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A clause is a unit of language larger than a phrase that contains a verb.

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Define grapheme

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A grapheme is the smallest unit in written language.

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What is a homonym

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Where two words have the same spelling but different meanings.

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10
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What is intonation

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Intonation is the use of pitch in speech to show differences.

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Define Jargon

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Jargon is technical language

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12
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Define lexis

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Lexis is the vocabulary used in a text

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13
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What is a metaphor

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A metaphor is a construction where one ing is described as another

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Define metonymy

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Metonymy is where an attribute of something is substituted for the whole thing

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Define morpheme

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A morpheme is the smallest unit of grammatical meaning

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16
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What is morphology

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Morphology is the study of the structure of words

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17
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Define onomatopoeia

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It is a word that sounds like the thing it is describing, such as crash.

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18
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Define oxymoron

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An oxymoron is where two contradictory terms are used in speech.

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19
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What are phonetics

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The production, transmission and reception of speech

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What is a preposition

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A preposition is a word which commonly comes before a noun or pronoun

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21
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What is Received Pronunciation

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It is regionally neutral British English

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22
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Define slang

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Slang is the use of non standard words, usually regional

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23
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Define semantics

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Semantics ins the study of meaning of words.

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24
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Define Abbreviation

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Where letters or a shortened word are used in exchange for a word.

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25
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What is an auxiliary verb

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A verb which is used in conjunction with another in order to create a present participle or future tense

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26
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What is a modal verb

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An auxiliary verb which expresses a degree of necessity or pssibility

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27
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Define superlative

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A superlative is a word which is the “best” of something

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28
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What is a comparative

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A comparative is a word which relates to another object, and usually ends in -er.

29
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What is the definite article

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The.

30
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What is the indefinite article

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A, or an.

31
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What is the second person pronoun

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You.

32
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What is a possessive pronoun

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My, min, his, hers etc.

33
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What is a demonstrative pronoun

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This, that, these

34
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What is register?

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The level of formality of a text

35
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What is tenor

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The tone or relationship between a reader and writer.

36
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Define context

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Contextual features are external factors which affect the meaning of a text

37
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What is a colloquialism

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A colloquialism is informal language use in a text.

38
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What is a rhetorical question

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A question which doesn’t require an answer

39
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What is hypophora

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Where a rhetorical question is answered.

40
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Define hyperbole

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Hyperbole is the over exaggeration of hinge for effect

41
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What is litotes

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The under exaggeration of something for effect

42
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What is premodification

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It is the use of descriptive words before a noun

43
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What is post modification

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It is the use of descriptive words after a noun.

44
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What is a simile

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It is a phrase which states that something is like another thing.

45
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Is an analogy

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It is where something is explained in the terms of something else

46
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What is a pathetic fallacy

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Where the environment mirrors emotions

47
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What is an acronym

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A word which is created by using the initials of another word, such as boat, NATO etc.

48
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What is archaic language

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Words that have fallen out of use due to their age and the fact that they are not applicable in modern society

49
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What is a connoation

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The meaning behind words

50
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What is a denotation

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The literal meaning behind words

51
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What are paralinguistic features

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Body language

52
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What are prosodic features

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The use of things such as stress in spoken language

53
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What is a vocative

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A direct reference to another in spoken language

54
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Accent

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The specific way words are pronounced according to geographical region

55
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Adjacency pair

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Two utterances by different speakers that have a natural and logical link

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Adjectival phrase

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A phrase with an adjective as its head (very big)

57
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Adverbial phrase

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A phrase with an adverb at its head (very quickly)

58
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Agency

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The responsibility for an action

59
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Alliteration

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A sequence of words beginning with the same sound

60
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Anaphoric referencing

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Referencing back to an already stated term

61
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Antonymy

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Words with opposite semantic value

62
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Auxiliary verb

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A verb that supports or helps another, showing tense or possibility

63
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Cataleptic referencing

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Referencing forwards in a sentence

64
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Cohesion

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How well the text fits together

65
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Colloquialism

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An established set of informal terms used everyday

66
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Comparative

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A comparison of two items, adjectives with -er or more

67
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Complex sentence

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A sentence containing a main clause with one or more subordinate clauses

68
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Compound sentence

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A sentence containing two or more main clauses, connected by punctuation or conjunctions

69
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Connotation

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An associated meaning behind words

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