Formal features Flashcards
(8 cards)
Nominalisation
abstract idea of something. Created by Turing it into a noun and removing the doer eg: The creation
Phonological features (4)
Consonance
Assonance
Alliteration
Rhythm and Rhyme
Morphological / lexical features
Compounding eg: law-enforcement
Acronyms and initialisms
Jargon
Syntax features
P- Paralelism, repetition of the structure
A- Antithesis, opposing clauses
L- Listing, (packaging, Layering)
Passive voice - place focus
Nominalisation- more abstract
Info flow
Syntax (Info Flow)
F- Front focus, fronting, inversion
E- end focus, fronting or end weight, existential sentences
C- Clefting , It or What clefts change focus
Existential sentence
sounds more factual and authoritative, places ‘there’ or ‘it’ as a dummy subject.
Cohesion
GLUE
Phonological patterning + syntactic patterning
Conjunctions
Antonymy + Synonym
Ellipsis
Repetition
Anaphoric + cataphoric referencing
Information flow
Deixis
Coherence
Formatting features + Layout
logical order
consistency of tense, person or semantics field
Conventions