Language and Word Choice Flashcards
What is denotation?
Denotation is a translation of a sign to its meaning, precisely to its literal meaning, more or less like dictionaries try to define it.
What is analogy?
Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject to another, or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.
What does tone refer to in literature?
In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer’s attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.
What is allusion?
Allusion is a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external context.
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is a suffix?
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
What is structural analysis?
Structural analysis is dividing words into parts to discover what an unknown word means.
What is a root word?
A root, or a root word, is a word that does not have a prefix or a suffix.
What is an attitude in psychology?
In psychology, an attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event.
What is an idiom?
An idiom is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.
What is vocabulary?
A person’s vocabulary is the set of words within a language that are familiar to that person.
What is hyperbole?
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
What is a prefix?
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
