Advanced Technical Terminology Flashcards
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A word that represents a process that is often only mental, e.g. think, love, ponder, believe, fear, etc.
Stative Verb
A verb that must be used with another verb in order to form present participles or future tense, e.g. did, am, will, etc.
Auxiliary Verb
When a sentence is issuing a command it uses the…
Imperative Sentence Mood
When a sentence is making a statement it uses the…
Declarative Sentence Mood
When a sentence is asking a question it uses the…
Interrogative Sentence Mood
When a sentence conveys a strong sense of alarm or emotion it uses the…
Exclamatory Sentence Mood
A rhetorical question immediately followed by its answer.
Hypophora
A understatement created by using the negative against the antithesis of a positive, e.g. “She wasn’t happy.”
Litotes
A conjunction that diminishes the priority over the clause it precedes in a complex sentence.
Subordinating Conjunction
A conjunction that creates equal priority among the clauses of a compound sentence.
Coordinating Conjunction
The order of words or clauses in a sentence and its effect.
Syntax
Synonym of “tone”, indicates the relationship between the reader and the author.
Tenor
The level of formality within a text.
Register
Synonym of tripling.
Tricolon
An “epic simile”, an extended simile of considerable length
Homeric
Elements of a text that hold opposite ends of a scale.
Binary Opposites
The listing of elements without any form of coordinating conjunction.
Asyndetic Listing
The listing of elements featuring a coordinating conjunction.
Syndetic Listing
Mimicking elements of what is being described.
Mimesis
Colloquial omission of parts of words to create a more casual register.
Clipping
One quote taken from the article to seize the reader’s attention.
Grab Quote
Refers to the way in which connections within and between sentences form a coherent piece of writing.
Cohesion
The use of lexical or semantic fields, repetition for effect, collocation, synonyms, etc.
Lexical Cohesion
Referring to something by personal or possessive pronouns before identifying it to create anticipation or suspense, e.g. “Here she is, in her fishnet tights and her 9-inch-heels, it’s Baroness Thatcher.”
Cataphoric Reference
