Terminology Flashcards
Abstract Noun
A naming word for an idea, concept, state of being or belief
eg. tidiness, sadness, love, politics, Marxism.
Proper Noun
A naming word for a specific example of a common noun
eg. Bob, Eiffel Tower, Burnley, Wayne Rooney
Common Noun
A naming word for a thing that is tangible
eg. chair, penguin, man, arsonist, murderer, ghost, crumpet, trumpet
Active Verb
A word that represents a physical action
eg. jump, run, kill, slap, kiss
Stative Verb
A word that represents a process that is often only mental
eg. think, love, ponder, believe
Modal Verb
An auxiliary verb that expresses either possibility or necessity
eg. might, could, should, must, may
Auxiliary Verb
A verb that has to be used with another verb in order to create present participles or the future tense
eg. most, biggest, smallest, furthest, worst, farthest, quickest, zaniest (most end with -est)
Comparative Verb
An adjective that relates one thing in some way to another (usually ends in -er)
eg. farther, bigger, smaller, further, quicker, zanier
Imperative
Issuing a command
Declarative
Making a statement
Interrogative
Asking a question
Exclamatory
Strong sense of emotion, sense of alarm or overly strong emphasis
Register
Level of formality of a text
Tenor
Tone between author and reader and how it is created
Colloquialism
Informal use of language
Syntax
The way words form sentences (the ordering of them to create meaning)
Parenthesis
An ‘aside’ created in a text created by sectioning off information with brackets, dashes or between two commas
Litotes
Deliberately downplaying things for effect (think Modest proposal)
Hypophora
When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer
eg. “Is it the best film ever? You bet it is!”
Tricolon
Rule of three
Archaic
An ‘old-fashioned’ word that has fallen out of use over time
Binary opposites
Elements of a text that hold opposite ends of a notional scale
eg. hot/cold, big/small
Asyndetic Listing
Listing without any form of conjunction
Syndetic Listing
Listing with the use of conujunctions
Pastiche
A form of art that mimics another form or genre to generate humour
Inverted Syntax
When the ordering of words is rearranged to create an alternative weighting to a sentence (think Yoda)
Prosodic Features
‘Sound effects’ of spoken language. Things like stress, intonation and pitch
Erudite Audience
Having or showing great knowledge or learning
