vocab glossary Flashcards
question tag
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a simple statement followed by a short question
Mother: see? we should of never planted that thing
Effect: emphasises a point
idiom
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a saying which describes an event/action
Keller: asking alright just don’t beat her over the head with it.
effect: colloquial dialect, sense of undisturbed normality
phonetic spelling
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when a word is spelt how it sounds
example: your not even an animal
effect: allows for fluency in reading
non standard grammar
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when something is said which isn’t grammatically correct.
Jim: ‘don’t believe it’ as supposed to ‘i will not believe it’
Effect: creates colloquial realistic dialogue
possessive pronouns
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a word which indicates an item belonging to someone
‘shes not his girl’
creates a sense of belonging and clarity for the reader.
- in ams it also demonstrates the gender norms of the 1940s
personification
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giving something non human human characteristics
example: those dear dead days
colloquial language
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language specific to a region
y’all
creates a sense on undisturbed normality
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zoomorphism
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giving something human non human characteristics
‘I was the beast!’
removes a persons humanities, villainises them
elision
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merging two words together.
example: You’d-a seen something
effect: realistic dialogue
reminder of joes working class background
hypophora
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asking a question then answering it yourself.
example: what did i find the other day? His baseball glove!
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end clipping
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when the last letter of a word is removed.
example- this whole shootin’ match is for you
represents rushed speech or an american/working class dialect
repetition
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repeating a word
example: i’m asking you to stop it. Now stop it!
anaphora
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repeated words at the start of a sentence/paragraph.
example: because certain things can be and certain things can never be.
creates a fluid almost fable esk tone
triadic structure
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3 clauses in a sentence
example: when he speaks, when he reads,when he listens
effect: generates a sense of rhythm and power
pre modification
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adjectives which come before a noun
example: a slender apple tree
effect: describes a word/provides context
Litotes
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underplaying the impact of an event
Anadiplosis
When a sentence ends and begins with the same phrase
‘…from his mouth. From his mouth it’s an altogether different story’
