Semantics Flashcards
Semantics
Semantics refers to the meaning of words
Semantic Field
Semantic fields are a technique often used by writers to keep a certain image persistent in their readers’ mind.
Associative Meaning
In semantics, associative meaning refers to the particular qualities or characteristics beyond the denotative meaning that people commonly think of in relation to a word or phrase.
Puns
Puns are figures of speech based on the inherent ambiguities of language.
Denotative Meaning
The adjective DENOTATIVE has 2 senses: 1. having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming 2. in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term. Familiarity information: DENOTATIVE used as an adjective is rare.
Simile
A simile compares two things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Hyperbole
A way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc. than they are
Synonym
A word that has the same meaning as another word in the same language
Metaphor
An expression, often found in literature, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.
Idiom
An idiom is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase
Antonym
An antonym is a word, adjective, verb or expression whose meaning is opposite to that of a word.
Semantic Change
Semantic change is a form of language change regarding the evolution of word usage
Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one object or idea takes the place of another with which it has a close association
