Unknown Technical Lexis

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Allegory

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A story with an underlying meaning

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonants

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Anthropomorphism

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Animal takes on characteristics like a human

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Amplification

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Adding more information

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End-stopped lines

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Lines end with punctuation

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Fricatives

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Repetition of consonants where air is impeded

E.g. ‘th’, ‘f’, ‘v’

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Synaesthesia

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Imagery combining the senses

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Periodic sentence

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Begins with a series of subordinate phrases and clauses then ending with a forceful independent clause

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Cumulative sentence

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Begins with independent clause and ends with series of phrases or clauses

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Absolute language

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Language with no ‘middle ground’

Suggests confidence

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Declarative sentence

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Makes a statement

Similar to absolute language

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Conditional sentence

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A sentence that focuses on a question of truth or fact

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Parallel structure/ parallelism

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A set of similarly structured words, phrases or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph. For emphasis of equal ideas

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Juxtaposition

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Placing two ideas, words of images side by side so their closeness gives a new, or ironic, meaning

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Anadiplosis

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A type of repetition where the last word of a sentence becomes the first word of the next sentence and so on
Shows unity of thought

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Epanalepsis

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A sentence where the beginning and end words are the same

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Epistrophe

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A type of repetition where the words at the end of the sentence are repeated

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Trope

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Referring to one thing as another

E.g. metaphors, similes, metonymy

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Antanaclasis

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Repetition of a word in two different senses

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Paronomasia

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Using words that sound alike but differ in meaning

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Malapropism

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A confused use of words where one appropriate word is replaced by another, often with an inappropriate meaning

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Litotes

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Understatement used deliberately

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Paradox

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A contradictory statement that contains a measure of truth

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Parenthesis

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Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow

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Ellipsis

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Omission of one or more words

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Chiasmus

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ABBA structure

Two corresponding pairs in inverse order

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Hyperbaton

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Inversion of word order or separation of words that belong together

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Ploce

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Repetition of a single word for rhetorical emphasis

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Abstract noun

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Name of an idea, concept, state of being or belief

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Proper noun

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A naming word for a specific example of a common noun

E.g. Eiffel tower

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Stative verb

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A word that represents a mental process

E.g. think

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Auxiliary verb

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A verb that has to be used with another verb to create a present participle or future tense
E.g. will, did

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Definite article

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‘The’

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Indefinite article

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‘A’ or ‘an’

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Pronoun

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A word that takes the place of a noun in the sentence

E.g. him

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First person pronoun

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‘I’

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Demonstrative pronoun

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‘This’
‘That’
‘Those’

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Possessive pronoun

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‘My’
‘Mine’
‘Our’

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Form

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The structure and shape of text

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Hypophora

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When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer

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Allusion

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To refer to something indirectly or metaphorically

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Semantic

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Meaning of words

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Field specific lexis

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Language of a certain area

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Homophone

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Words that sound the same when read aloud

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Homonym

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One word has multiple meanings

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Archaism

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A word that has fallen out of common usage

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Binary opposites

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Words at either end of notional scale

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Collocations

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Words that just go together due to common usage

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Phonological features

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Devices relating to sound

E.g. alliteration

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Exposition

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The part of a story involving all the parts of a character before the plot begins. Avoid doing so through dialogue

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Anti-hero

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A protagonist who isn’t always morally virtuous but has enough qualities to be endearing to the reader

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Mimesis

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Replicating for example, the short, gasping breath of the protagonist with short, sharp words and aspirant alliteration

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Neologism

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Newly invented word

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Portmanteau

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A newly invented word formed by merging words together

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Denotation

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The literal meaning of words

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Euphemism

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The polite way to say something not normally considered socially appropriate

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Dysphemism

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An unnecessarily extreme way of saying something

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Quatrain

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A four-line verse

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Sestet

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A six-line verse

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Orthography

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The method of spelling/ correct spelling

‘Non-standard orthography’ is words from the past in comparison to how we spell them today

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Etymology

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The origin of a word or the history of how it came to be

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Anachronistic

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Language that seems out of time

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Inverted syntax

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Shift in the order of words to change the weighting of the sentence