Termanology Flashcards
Modal auxiliary verbs
Possibility, certainty (will, would, may)
Epistemic modality
Sentences/ phrases that express possibility, probability, certainty
Deontic modality
Sentences/ phrases that express necessity and obligation
Idiom
Phrase that doesn’t mean it’s literal meaning (pull yourself together)
Parenthesis
Added as an explanation to the sentence, marked by commas or brackets or dashes
Antithesis
Juxtaposition, contrasting ideas right next to eachother
Ideology
A belief that a group holds
Polysemic
A word with multiple meanings
Denotation
Dictionary definition
Lexical field
Main subject of the text
Collocation
Multiple words often found together and have a distinct meaning
Semantic field
Pattern of words with similar meanings
Compound
Word formed from two other words
Valediction
Saying farewell
stative verbs
Actions that we cant see, exists beyond physical state.
dynamic verbs
physical actions that can be seen.
proper nouns
names, usually begins with capital letters