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Extra From Website Flashcards

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Litotes

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Use of understatement for rhetorical effect - double negative for emphasis (He’s not intelligent, it’s not bad,)

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Aphorism

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A concise statement that is made in a matter of fact - underlying tone of authority (If you don’t work you will get bad grades)

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Archetypes

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An original idea that is now not original - stereotypes used as examples. The audience will immediately relate to it (Romeo and Juliet a symbol of eternal love)

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Anagram

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Same letters jumbled - sense of discomfort and order (debit card - bad credit)

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Anastrophe

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Reversed order of the noun and adjectives (he spoke of times past and future) - dramatic impact to dwell on the words

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Allegory

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A story that has a deeper meaning (Animal farm actually being about communism)

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Asyndeton

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Purposefully leaving out a joining word (reduce, reuse, recycle)

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Stream of consciousness

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Thoughts on paper without any sense of logic/order

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Meter

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Creates rhythm and enhances the flow of poem (iambic pentameter)

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Paradox

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Draws attention to a certain truth, self contradictory

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Couplet

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Emphasises two lines, enables the poem to develop a theme or mood more clearly

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Lexis

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The vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar, the total rock of words and idiomatic combinations in a language

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Semantics

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Branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. Two areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense, reference, presupposition, and implication. Lexical semantics are concerned with e analysis of word meanings and relations between them

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Phonology

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The system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language

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