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Vocabulary Flashcards

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Accent

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A distinctive manner of pronunciation that marks a regional or social identity

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Adjacency pairs

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Structure of spoken language

Adjacency pairs follow each other

Different speakers, conform to a pattern

Eg questions and answer
Command and responses
Greeting and responses

Are you well?
Very well thank you!

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Adjective

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A word that describes a noun

Also known as modifiers

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Adverb

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Action of a word

Also intensifiers like very angry

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Allegory

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A story or narrative with deeper meaning

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Alliteration

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Repetition of same Constance sound

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Allusion

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A reference to another event person place or work of literature

Usually implied not explicit

Brings another meaning to text

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Ambiguity

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Use of language where the meaning is unclear or has 2 or more possible interpretations

Often used deliberately to create layers of meaning

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Ambivalence

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Situation where more than one possible attitude is being displayed by the writer towards a character theme or idea etc

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Anachronism

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Something historically inaccurate

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Anapest

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Unit of Poetry metre

2 stressed followed by stress

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Anaphoric

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Reference in which a pronoun or noun points back to something mentioned earlier

The part was great, IT was enjoyed by everyone

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Antithesis

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Constrasting words against each other

To be or not to be

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Antonym

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Words w opp meaning

Dark light

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Archaism

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Old language

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Assonance

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Repetition of same verb sound

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Attitude

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A particular view point of someone

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Audience

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People addressed

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Ballad

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Narrative poem

Straight forward

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Bias

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Favouring a point of view

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed poetry strict pattern to each line in iambic pentameter

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Caesura

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Break in line of Poetry

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Caricature

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A character described through exaggeration of features that he or she possesses

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Catharasis

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Purging of emotions that take place at end of tragedy

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Chaining

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The linking of agecancy pairs to form a sentence

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Clause

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A group of words usually with a finite verb which is structurally larger then a phrase

They are made up of elements - have peculiar meaning

5 types of clauses

Subject
Verb
Object
Complement- further info on another clause element
Adverbial- adds info about situation like time

In order

Eg
The teacher had told us to listen 3 times

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Cliche

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An idea so overused it lost meaning and impact

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Cohesion

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Links and connections that unite elements of discourse or text

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Coinage

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The collection or addition of new words to existing word stock

30
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Collocation

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2 or more words that frequently appear together

Safe and sound

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Colloquial

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Every day not formal speech

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Comedy

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Happy ending literature

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Command

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Sentence where someone is told to do something

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Compound

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A word made up of 2 or more morphemes

Baby-sitter

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Conceit

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Surprising comparison between things

Eg his liver wth the the legs of cockroaches

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Conjunction

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Co ordinating - and or but so

Subordinate - if while where as

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Connotation

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Definitions

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Contextual framework

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Application of a particular social-historical standpoint used to analysis a text

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Contraction

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Shortened word

Isn’t

Doesn’t

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Convergence

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Linguistic change

Accent or dialect becomes more alike

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Conversational analysis

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Key feature of informal spoken interaction

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Couplet

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2 executive lines that rhyme

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Verbs

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Active - subject doing verb

Passive- verb happening to subject

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Declarative

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Statement

I am a hard working student

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Degree

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Comparison of adjectives or adverbs

Absolute form - tall
Comparative form - taller
Superlative form - tallest

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Didactic

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Preach

Teach

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Euphemism

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Eg pass away

Dystopia (10 decks)

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