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Question 1

Meiosis

Answer 1

> A deliberate understatement (opposite to hyperbole)

> e.g. Oh? The £10,000 watch I bought you? Just a small token of my appreciation

> e.g. The car’s written off? It was only a little prang!

Question 2

Mentonymy

Answer 2

> When one thing stands in for something else that it represents (opposite to synecdoche)

> e.g. The White House stopped the law passing. (Here, The White House represents the US government or the President.)

> e.g. Wall Street crashed again in 2008. (Wall Street represents the US banking system.)

Question 3

Monosyllabic word

Answer 3

> A word of one syllable

> e.g. Cat

Question 4

Morpheme

Answer 4

> The smallest unit of language that expresses meaning or serves a grammatical function: always a letter or a group of letters

Question 5

Morphology

Answer 5

> The study of the structure of words

Question 6

Mode

Answer 6

> The medium of communication

> e.g. speech, writing

Question 7

Moderator

Answer 7

> An individual or group of individuals who run a message board and have the right to edit or delete threads and posts

Question 8

Multi-Modal text

Answer 8

> Texts that combine word, image and sound to produce meaning, for example a children’s storybook that includes images to support the text

Question 9

Multipurpose-text

Answer 9

> A text with more than one purpose