Language terminology Flashcards
1
Q
The cats out the bag
A
idiom
2
Q
gone to a better place
A
euphamism and idiom
3
Q
rise and fall of the voice when speaking
A
intonation
4
Q
conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors
A
adjacency pairs
5
Q
adjacency pairs
A
conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors
6
Q
play on words
A
pun
7
Q
litotes
A
a deliberate understatement
8
Q
deliberate understatement
A
litotes
9
Q
name prosodic features 5
A
- changes in pitch
- volume
- pauses
- stress
- speed
10
Q
stichomythia
A
rapid-fire dialogue of two characters speak alternating short or single lines of verse.
11
Q
rapid fire lines or phrases of dialogue between two characters
A
stichomythia
12
Q
giving humans animalistic traits
A
zoomorphism
13
Q
collocation
A
two words that fit perfectly together
14
Q
words that fit perfectly with one another
A
collocation
15
Q
a text that can be coordinated through different forms
A
multimodal
