Glossary

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Collocations

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Words that naturally go together e.g. fire and ice

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Colloquialism

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Informal language use

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Compound word

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bone-head

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Connotations and denotations

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Connotations- associations from words

Denotations- Literal meanings

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Determiners

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precede nouns and relate directly to them ‘I want that pen’

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Fronting

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Emphasis of putting word or phase at the beginning

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Gerund

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ing suffix

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Homonym

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one word with multiple meanings

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Idiom

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a saying, cliche

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Morpheme

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’s’ denotes quantitative meaning

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Parenthesis

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Separates extra information in brackets, dashes and two commas

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Past perfect tense

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‘have’ in the past tense. often used in flashbacks e.g. ‘i had gone out’

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Anaphoric

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reference to something that happened earlier in the text

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Register

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Level of formality in a text

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Sentence meetings

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Complex- simple sentence with a clause that adds extra information linked with a sub-ordinate conjunction
Compound- two simple sentences joined together
Minor- missing a subject or verb

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Sentence moods

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Imperative
interrogative
exclamatory
declarative

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Superlative

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adjective that displays the most extreme of quality- furthest, farthest

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Synonym

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Alternative word choice for something

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Tenor

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tone of voice or relationship between author and reader

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Terminus

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end of sentence

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Analepsis

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A flashback

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Exposition

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Background of the characters and information before the plot sets off

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Mimesis

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A story may mimic the sound of breathing through short sentences

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Prolepsis

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a flashforward

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Third person omniscient narrator

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A God like voice telling a story with multiple characters

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of being true or real in a fictional story. A created version to seem real enough but with dramatic purposes

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Jargon

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Language that ppl with a certain understanding will only understand

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Deixis

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Referencing a speaker and addressee

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Elision

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Omission of sounds and syllabes in speech eg i'm

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Turn-taking

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Convo when other person listens to the other speak and vise versa

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phatic language

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Speech used for emotive purposes rather than to communicating information

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Discourse markers

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'right' 'okay' 'now' 'well'

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loose structures

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'i was there and i saw you..'

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elliptical utterance

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Don't blame you, omit part of structure

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non-fluency features

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fillers, unintentional repetition, etc

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Amelioration

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making something better, so a word has a nicer meaning now

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Pejoration

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the downgrading of a word

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Co-Ordination

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two or more independent clauses being joined by co-ordinating conjunction

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Sub-Ordination

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Joining of two or more clauses where only one is independent

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Cataphoric Reference

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Reference to something yet to be identified in the text. 'It was living, it was uncle George'

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Assertives

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Declaratives, authority with it

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Directive

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A command

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Commisives

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Talking about what you will do