Language Techniques Flashcards
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Contrast
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- Draw attention to two opposing ideas, people or themes => Make us think about them
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Juxtaposition
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- Putting two contrasting things closely together to make the differences between two things more obvious
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Intertextuality
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- Draw upon audiences’ background knowledge
- Composer mentions something outside the text that audiences know
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Allusion
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- Can be explicitly (rõ ràng) or implicitly (ngầm hiểu)
- Highly symbolic
- Simplify complex ideas and emotions by referring to something that is well known for particular reasons
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Imagery
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- Gives audience freedom to imagine a scene or experience
- Shape the mood, tone, or atmosphere
- Vivid, descriptive languages refer to senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, sound)
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Emotive language
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- Draw particular emotions out of audiences
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Descriptive language
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- Add greater detail for the audience to understand
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Symbolism
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- The use of symbols
- Simplify complex ideas for audiences, make reference to well known symbol
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Motifs
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- Repeated symbols
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Metaphor
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- Mention a word literally but not meant literally
- Help people think in a new way
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Simile
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- Easier for people to picture things
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Personification
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- Make life more vibrant, bring life to scene
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Hyperbole
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- Humorously in satires to make absurd situations
- Draw audiences’ attention to absurdity of a character, group, event, …
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Repitition
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- Emphasise an object being repeated
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Alliteration
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- Repeated consonant sounds across a series of words
- Create atmosphere, tone, characterise an object or thing
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Rhetorical question
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- Make readers think about their problems/ issues/ object
- Persuade in speeches and advertising
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Cliches
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- Indicate insincerity - not understand what they speak or write
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Paradox
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- A weird, or unconventional way to convey a thoughtful notion
- Use negative of negative form
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Puns
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- Make the writing humorous, clever and memorable
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Irony
- Say this one but mean another
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- Creates humour
- Highlight a contradiction between what is and what should be
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Euphemism
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- Indicate the sensitivity on part of the composers
- Indicate that writers cannot communicate plainly, truthfully
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Parody
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- Grab attention, appeal to our sense of humour
- Ridicule the original texts which they are based on
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Jargon
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- Make a text more professional, knowledgeable, authority, important or authenticity.
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Register
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- Level of formality of language
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Colloquial language
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- Mixed use of formal languages and informal languages (slangs/ swear words, contractions)
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Person
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1,2,3
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Commands/Imperatives
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- Convey feeling of urgency
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Tone
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- Attitude of the composer want to express to the audiences
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Connotations (hàm ý)
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- Brings more meaning to the text
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Statistical information/Expert Opinion
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- Give more scientific information
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Mood
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- Feeling evoked by the writing
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