Unit #1 Flashcards
The big four: verb
Action, transitive, intransitive, linking, helping, active, passive
The big four: noun
Person,place or thing
The big four: adjective
Modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, identifying or quantifying words
The big four: adverb
Can modify a verb an adjective, another, a phrase or a clause
The little four: pronouns
Used to replace nouns or other pronouns. Used to make sentences less cumbersome and repetitive
The little four: conjunction
Used to link words, phrases and clauses
The little four: preposition
Links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in the sentence
The little four: interjection
A word added to a sentence to convey emotion
Connotation
The implied meaning.
The implied ( or connotative meaning) often emotional in nature.
Example- what comes to mind when you think of homeless
Denotation
The universal and accepted meaning of a word. It’s dictionary definition
Euphemisms
A pleasant- sounding expression substitutes for an unpleasant of offensive expression or sensitive topics.
Example- collateral damage= indiscriminate and bloody slaughter of hundreds of civilians
Dysphemisms
Negative sounding word applied to something that is not so bad.
Example- death tax= inheritance tax
Idiom
A commonly used phrase that makes no literal sense, but instead has a well known figurative meaning
Example- raining cats and dogs
Seeing eye to eye
Malapropisms
Commonly miss used word
Example- further/father
Them/than
Circumlocution
Unnecessarily complex words
