Terminology

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Overlapping

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When one person speaks over the other person speaking

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Smooth latching

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When the second person speaks right after the first person

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Imperative sentences

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A sentence that issues commands, advice, instructions etc. They usually begin with a verb and omit the subject

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Declarative sentences

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A sentence that makes statements or gives information.

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Interrogative sentences

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A sentence that asks questions

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Exclamatory sentences

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Sentences that begin with “what” or “how” and often lack of verb. Other sentences ending in “!” can simply be called exclamations

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Proper nouns

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These usually begin with a capital letter and refer to specific people, places, occasions etc

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Concrete nouns

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Nouns that refer to things that physically exist

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Syndetic listing

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A list with one or more conjunctions

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Abstract nouns

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Nouns which refer to feelings, ideas, qualities etc. Things that do not physically exist

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Collective nouns

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Nouns which are names given to groups of people, animals, objects

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Comparative adjective

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Adjectives that compare things. Words such as colder and bigger

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Dynamic verbs

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Words that clearly refers to actions

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Adjacency pair

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In conversation, a two part exchange (E.G. A question followed by an answer).

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Stative verbs

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Words that refer to states or processes

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Primary verbs

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Verbs that can act as auxiliary verbs and also as main verbs. There are three of them: be, have and do

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Main verbs

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Single verb that expresses the main meaning

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Auxiliary verbs

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Are “helping” verbs placed in front of main verbs

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Modal auxiliary verbs

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Are only ever used alongside the main verb. There are nine of them: can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might and must.

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Determiners

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Are placed in front of nouns to indicate quantity or identify the noun in some way. The most common are the words a, an and the

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Oxymoron

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This occurs when contradictory words or phrases are brought together, as in the expression bittersweet

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Syntax inversion

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Reversed word order. Think of Yoda

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Syntax

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Word order

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Cohesion

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The techniques used to link together different parts of a text

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Complex sentence

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A sentence with a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses

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Alliteration

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When two or more words begin with the same sound

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Anaphoric reference

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A reference back to something mentioned earlier in a text

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Assonance

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The rhyming of vowel sounds within two or more words

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Asyndetic listing

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A list that does not use conjunctions

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Compound sentence

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Two simple sentences combined to form a single sentence by the use of a coordinating conjunction

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Connotations

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The associations that word has

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Couplet

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Pair of rhymed lines

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Denotation

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The straightforward, objective dictionary meaning of a word

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Discourse marker

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Words that indicate links or divisions between parts of (usually spoken) discourse

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Elision

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The omission of the sound or a syllable

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Enjambement

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In poetry, when the sense of one line continues into the next, and the end of the first line has no punctuation mark

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Hyperbole

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Intentional exaggeration

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Litotes

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Opposite of hyperbole

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Idiolect

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The way language is used by a particular individual

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Intensifier

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A word that increases or decreases the strength of another word

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Intonation

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Tone of voice

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Neologism

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A new word or expression

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Onomatopoeia

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When words imitate the sounds they describe

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Parallelism

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When parts of sentences (or complete sentences) have a similar pattern or structure

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Personification

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When something is not human described as it if were

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Simple sentence

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A sentence that has one clause

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Semantic field

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Group of words with linked or associated meanings

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Sibilance

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The repetition of s, soft c, sh and z sounds

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Subordinate clause

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A clause in a sentence that is of less importance than the main clause, and which cannot stand on its own and make sense

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Superlatives

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An adjective meaning the most of something

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First person

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Use of first person pronouns such as I, we, us

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Second person

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Use of second person pronoun such as you and your

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Intertextual reference

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This occurs when a text makes an implied or explicit reference to another text

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Cataphoric references

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Are references forward in the text e.g: the following items are needed…

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Exophoric reference

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Are references to the wider situation or context, to things outside the text