Language terminology Flashcards

1
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The cats out the bag

A

idiom

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2
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gone to a better place

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euphamism and idiom

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3
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rise and fall of the voice when speaking

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intonation

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4
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conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors

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adjacency pairs

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5
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adjacency pairs

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conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors

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6
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play on words

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pun

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7
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litotes

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a deliberate understatement

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8
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deliberate understatement

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litotes

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9
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name prosodic features 5

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  • changes in pitch
  • volume
  • pauses
  • stress
  • speed
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10
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stichomythia

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rapid-fire dialogue of two characters speak alternating short or single lines of verse.

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11
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rapid fire lines or phrases of dialogue between two characters

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stichomythia

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12
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giving humans animalistic traits

A

zoomorphism

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13
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collocation

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two words that fit perfectly together

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14
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words that fit perfectly with one another

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collocation

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15
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a text that can be coordinated through different forms

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multimodal

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16
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I will never ever, ever, ever.

A

epzeuxis (epi zook sis)

17
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Reppetition of a word in immediate sucsession

18
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a characters individual voice

19
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a newly formed word

20
Q

speach used by parents and caregivers towards children

A

Child- directed speech

21
Q

Transgressive

A

crossing of boundaries

22
Q

neo classical and classical

A

whom believe all art should imitate precedents and genres created by artists of classical civilizations (greece, rome). Classical is art that originated from classical civilisations.

23
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assonance

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repeating of vowel sound (close,low,clouds,verbose)

24
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Absurdist theatre

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a genre where impossible or ridiculous events make a statement about the absurdness of reality.

25
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exuent vs exit

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multiple vs one person leaving the stage

26
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Aside

A

a remark made by a character which other characters cannot hear

27
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monologue

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speach of one character if a play, no other cast present

28
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Picaresque

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protagonists travels and encounters more important than character.

29
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Epistolery

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novel written in the form of an exchange of letters

30
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interleaving

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telling of several stories in one text, stories woven into eachother.

31
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symbolism

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symbol represents a concept

32
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Meta

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moments when text goes beyond its fictionality and makes the audience aware of its own fictionality

33
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ludic

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a text that plays into the readers expectations e.g expectations of the locked door murder mystery.

34
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burlesque

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satire that uses characature

35
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diatribe

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rant or angry speech of denunciation- informing against someone,publically condemning.

36
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Allegory

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close one- to- one comparison. e.g a book ab a hive being an allegory for 21st centuary england (queen, workers and soldiers)

37
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pathetic

A

appealing to emotions