Textual Analysis + Representation

Question 1

What is intertextuality?

Answer 1

When a text makes a direct reference to / borrows the features from another text.

Question 2

What are semantics?

Answer 2

The meanings of words.

Question 3

What are pragmatics?

Answer 3

The purpose of a word

Question 4

What are the 4 types of nouns?

Answer 4

Proper nouns, abstract nouns, concrete nouns, count nouns.

Question 5

What are the 6 types of pronouns?

Answer 5

Personal, possessive, reflexive, relative, demonstrative, interrogative

Question 6

What is a personal pronoun?

Answer 6

The main person or object in the clause.

Question 7

What is a possessive pronoun?

Answer 7

Says who the object belongs to.

Question 8

What is a reflexive pronoun?

Answer 8

Says when the actor+ receiver are the same.

Question 9

What is a relative pronoun?

Answer 9

Says the relationship between 2 items

Question 10

What is a demonstrative pronoun?

Answer 10

Shows the relationship between the speaker+ the object.

Question 11

What is an interrogative pronoun?

Answer 11

Used to ask questions.

Question 12

What is a dynamic verb?

Answer 12

A verb that shows any type of physical action

Question 13

What is a stative verb?

Answer 13

A verb that shows that have no obvious physical result.

Question 14

What are the 7 types of modal verb?

Answer 14

Possibility, prediction, permission, ability, necessity, obligation, intention.

Question 15

What are the 4 types of adjective?

Answer 15

Comparative, superlative, attributive, predictive.

Question 16

What is an attributive adjective?

Answer 16

An adjective that appears before the noun.

Question 17

What is a predictive adjective?

Answer 17

An adjective that appears before the noun

Question 18

What are the 4 types of adverb?

Answer 18

Time, manner, frequency, place.

Question 19

What are the 4 types of sentence?

Answer 19

Imperative, exclamatory, interrogative, declarative.

Question 20

What are the two types of conjunctions?

Answer 20

Coordinating, subordinating

Question 21

What is a minor sentence?

Answer 21

Not a complete sentence

Question 22

What does a simple sentence contain?

Answer 22

One clause and one main verb.

Question 23

What does a compound sentence contain?

Answer 23

Two or more main clauses joined by co-ordinating conjunction (s)

Question 24

What is a complex sentence?

Answer 24

Contains more than one sentence and more than one main verb

Question 25

What is the active voice?

Answer 25

Where the subject is usually fronted

Question 26

What is the passive voice?

Answer 26

Where the subject is usually at the end or doesn’t appear. The object is the main focus.

Question 27

What is jargon?

Answer 27

Language that reflects a particular social group / occupation.

Question 28

What is synthetic personalisation?

Answer 28

Where writers can make assumptions about the likes, dislikes, values, opinions of their target audience.

Question 29

What is synthetic sisterhood?

Answer 29

Where the writer creates an imaginary dialogue between them and the reader to create a feeling of trust.

Question 30

What are homophones?

Answer 30

Words that sound the same but have different meanings

Question 31

What does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis say?

Answer 31

We use languagerelative to our own experiences of the world around us

Question 32

What is the second part of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

Answer 32

The language we use determines the thoughts we have.

Question 33

What is linguistic reflectionism?

Answer 33

It says we are free to make up our own mind about a topic and it isn’t the lang we use that determines our thoughts.

Question 34

What does mute-group theory say?

Answer 34

Those in mute-groups have to change how they speak to be heard by the dominant group

Question 35

What is semantic reclamation?

Answer 35

Where terms that were used negatively to describe a group have now been ‘adopted’ by that group so it’s no longer negative.

Question 36

What is pejorative language?

Answer 36

Words that once had neutral meanings that now contain negative ones.