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Stylistic Terminology Flashcards

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Syntax

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Sentence structure

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Provenance

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The earliest known history of something.

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Paralinguistic’s

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Spoken communication that doesn’t involve words, may add shades of meaning to what people say. Like accent, fluency and pitch.

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Suprasegmental features

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Stress, tone or word juncture.

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Grice’s maxims

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Avoid ambiguity, be brief, be orderly.

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Modality

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The strength or force of a word- high modality words are forceful and vice versa.

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Pragmatics

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Words that contributes to context.

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Register

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The formality of texts- can be informal or formal.

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Lexis

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Words

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Semantics

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Meaning behind words or groups of words

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Paralinguistics

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Aspects of spoken communication that don’t use words e.g. gestures.

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Syntax

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Structure of sentences

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Discourse features

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Features of a particular text

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Non fluency features

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Mistakes and corrections we are whilst speaking and thinking simultaneously e.g. fillers, pauses.

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Spontaneous/natural speech

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Speech that has not been prepared

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Suprasegmental features

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How a person changes their voice to suit a particular topic/ audience

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Standard dialect

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The normal language used by a population.

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Non standard English

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English spoken in a way that is not normally expected

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Received Pronunciation

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A standard form of english pronunciation due to class or education

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Grice’s maxims

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Four rules for convo- quantity, quality, relation and manner.

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Modality

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Type of text- spoken or written

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Provenance

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Place of origin (where the discourse of text is from).

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Pragmatics

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The implied meanings of English

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Socio historical context

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The social and historical context of the text

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Production/ reception

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The circumstances in which the author wrote the text and how it affects the text or poem.

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Audience/purpose

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Who the text is aimed at and why it was written

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Utterance

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A spoken sentence

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Adjacency pairs/ chaining

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A unit of exchange where the second sentence is dependant upon the first.

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Agenda setting/ gate keeping

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Where a speaker sets the plan for the conversation / controlling the topic of the conversation.

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Dominance

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How much influence a speaker has over the conversation or how much they talk in relation to the other person.

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Verse

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Lines written in a poetic meter

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Prose

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Ordinary language doesn’t contain metrical structure of a poem.

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Tragic hero

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A character who makes a judgement error that leads to their own demise

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Hamartia

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A fatal flaw

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Aside

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Remark that is heard by the audience but not supposed to be heard by the other characters

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Soliloquy

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Speaking your thoughts to the audience

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Shared line

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Speakers share the number of syllables in a Shakespearean line between them

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Stichomythia

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Dialogue where 2 characters speak alternate lines of verse

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Iambic pentameter

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A line of verse with 5 feet, each foot contains one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

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Rhyming couplet

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A pair of lines that rhyme

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Hyper-metrical lines

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Lines with extra syllables than other lines in the text

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something the characters don’t

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Protagonist/ Antagonist

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Leading character/ Enemy

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Anagnorsis

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When they realise what has happened almost like an uh oh moment.

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Catharsis

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Releasing of emotions

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Caesura

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Punctuation within a line of verse

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Enjambment

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Punctuation at the end of a line of verse

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Omniscient / Limited / Unreliable

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Narrator knows everything / Narrator knows some things / Narrator may not be telling full story or truth.

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Symbol / Motif

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A representation of something / reoccurring image or symbol

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Foil

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Character opposite to the protagonist (tries to defeat them) e.g. Myrtle and Daisy.

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Idiolect

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Speech habits of a particular person

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Prolepsis/ Analepsis

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Foreshadowing/ flashing back

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Foreshadowing

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Warning or anticipation of a future event

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Climax

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Most intense or exciting part of a situation or story

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Exposition/Denouement

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Introduces information about events or characters before telling the story/showing how the plot actually turned out

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Rising action / Falling action

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Build up to action and increase in tension / After action and decrease in tension.

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Characterisation

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Creation of a fictional character

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Archetype

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A typical character or action that represents patterns in humanity

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Juxtaposition

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2 things being close together that are opposites

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Dialogue- free direct, speech tags, indirect

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Quotation marks for direct/speech tags are things describing how it was said, like “said”.

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