Language terminology Flashcards
The cats out the bag
idiom
gone to a better place
euphamism and idiom
rise and fall of the voice when speaking
intonation
conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors
adjacency pairs
adjacency pairs
conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors
play on words
pun
litotes
a deliberate understatement
deliberate understatement
litotes
name prosodic features 5
- changes in pitch
- volume
- pauses
- stress
- speed
stichomythia
rapid-fire dialogue of two characters speak alternating short or single lines of verse.
rapid fire lines or phrases of dialogue between two characters
stichomythia
giving humans animalistic traits
zoomorphism
collocation
two words that fit perfectly together
words that fit perfectly with one another
collocation
a text that can be coordinated through different forms
multimodal
I will never ever, ever, ever.
epzeuxis (epi zook sis)
Reppetition of a word in immediate sucsession
epizeuxis
a characters individual voice
idiolect
a newly formed word
neologism
speach used by parents and caregivers towards children
Child- directed speech
Transgressive
crossing of boundaries
neo classical and classical
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.
assonance
repeating of vowel sound (close,low,clouds,verbose)
Absurdist theatre
a genre where impossible or ridiculous events make a statement about the absurdness of reality.
exuent vs exit
multiple vs one person leaving the stage
Aside
a remark made by a character which other characters cannot hear
monologue
speach of one character if a play, no other cast present
Picaresque
protagonists travels and encounters more important than character.
Epistolery
novel written in the form of an exchange of letters
interleaving
telling of several stories in one text, stories woven into eachother.
symbolism
symbol represents a concept
Meta
moments when text goes beyond its fictionality and makes the audience aware of its own fictionality
ludic
a text that plays into the readers expectations e.g expectations of the locked door murder mystery.
burlesque
satire that uses characature
diatribe
rant or angry speech of denunciation- informing against someone,publically condemning.
Allegory
close one- to- one comparison. e.g a book ab a hive being an allegory for 21st centuary england (queen, workers and soldiers)
pathetic
appealing to emotions