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What is an accent?

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the pronunciation of a language

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What is an actual reader?

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the individual(s) who actually read or listen to a text

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What is an actual writer?

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the individual(s) who actually produce a text

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What is an adjective?

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word class to modify nouns

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What is an adverb?

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word class for mainly modifying adjectives and verbs - time/manner/place/degree (adverbs of degree)

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What is an alliteration?

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repetition of a sound at the beginning of several words

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What is an allusion?

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form of figurative language in which a reference is made to a text/event/person/place

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What is an analogy?

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cognitive process of transferring traits from one thing or idea to another

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What is anaphora?

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repetition of the same word/phrase in a succession of phrases or sentences

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What is anti-advertising?

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makes you aware of conventions of advertising, challenges audience

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What is an antithesis?

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contrast between ideas by placing them together

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What is an appeal to authority?

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argumentation technique by referring to a source of authority

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What is an appeal to fear?

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appealing to an audience’s sense of fear

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What is an audience?

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general term for a reader or listener of a text

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What is the bandwagon effect?

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propaganda technique that suggests one should do something because everyone else is doing

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What is bias?

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language that supports an ideological position, whether implicitly or explicitly

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What is cacophony?

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discordant, rugged, or hard-sounded effects in prose or verse

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What is caesura?

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a pause within a line of verse

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What is characterisation?

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the way in which a writer creates her characters in a narrative to attract or repel sympathy from the audience

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What is a clause?

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a group of words that express a single idea

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What is a cliché?

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a boring phrase made tedious by frequent repetition

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What is coherence?

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systematic connection of ideas in a written place

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What is colloquialism?

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a kind of expression or grammar that is associated with ordinary, everyday speech rather than formal language

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What is conflict in advertising?

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including a conflict situation in an ad to help sell a product/idea

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What are complex and compound sentences?
complex - at least two clauses, one of them subordinate to the main compound - two or more main clauses linked with one of the conjunctions or/but/and
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What are conjunctions?
words that are used to connect words/phrases/clauses
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What is a connotation?
aura of emotion that is associated with a word through personal experience
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What are the contexts of production and reception?
COP - situation or circumstances in which a text is produced, with factors influencing it COR - situation or circumstances in which a text is received, with factors influencing its reading
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What is core vocabulary?
everyday and easily understood words, significant majority of our vocabulary
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What is couplet?
poetry - pair of rhymed lines any meter
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What is crowdsourcing?
Jeffo Howe "act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call"
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What is deictic?
words that point in various directions, within a text and beyond it
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What is a denotation?
literal, factual meaning of a word
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What is denouement?
the final unfolding of a plot in a literary work
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What is dialect?
unique and distinguishable combination of vocabulary, pronunciation, and syntax
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What is diatribe?
severely critical type of discourse, often spoken, characterised by anger at something/someone
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What is direct narration?
when the narrator seems to tell the reader what to think
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What is direct/reported speech?
direct - characters do all the talking reported - writers summarise what their characters say for the reader
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What is dramatic irony?
dramatic texts - audience possess more information about what is taking place than some of the characters
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What is an ellipsis?
the omission of part of a language structure
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What is an end-stopped line?
line of verse in which the end of the line coincides with a grammatical pause usually signalled by punctuation
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What is enjambment?
a line of poetry that is not end-stopped
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What is equivocation?
when a word is used in two different senses in an argument
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What is ethos?
character of an audience, nation, or community
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What is an euphemism?
a word or phrase that makes something sound better than it actually is
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What is the 1st person pov?
when a narrator is included in his or her story
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What is formalism?
school of literary criticism that looks at texts face value, without biographical, historical, or contextual considerations
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What is free indirect speech?
3rd person limited pov - gives us the sense of 1st person narration, as the narrator shows us the thoughts and actions of one character
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What is free verse?
a verse that is released from the convention of metre
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What is a function?
what language is used for
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What is a gatekeeper?
a person who has access to a particular medium and can disseminate ideas with it
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What is a genre?
term used to refer to a kind or type of literature
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What is graphology?
the visual aspect of a text, including layout, font, and image
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What is haiku?
Japanese lyric form - exactly 17 syllables in three lines, 5-7-5
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What is hyperbole?
a figure of speech; emphasis through exaggeration
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What is idiolect?
the way in which we all speak an individual and unique variety of language
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What is imagery?
stylistic device which uses language to appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch
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What is indirect narration?
when a narrator shows the readers the events of a story without telling us how to interpret them
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What is intertextuality?
the ways in which a text resonates or refers to another text
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What is irony?
literary or stylistic device in which one states something that is in discordance with what is expected
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What is jargon?
special technical language of any trade, profession, branch, or scholarship
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What is language?
a system of communication that is mutually intelligible among all members of a community
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What is logos?
the appeal to a reader or listener's sense of logic
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What is long tail marketing?
smaller, niche markets, as the Internet brings people together through social networking and large databases
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What is a mash up?
online texts, usually short films, that copy content from an original source and alter it to some extent to give it a new meaning
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What is a metaphor?
the comparison of two concepts through language, often done by using the verb 'to be'
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What is metonymy?
the act of referring to a concept not by its name, but by something intimately associated with it
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What is modality?
linguistics of judgement
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What is multivocal?
meaning is not fixed in a text in any kind of immutable, unified way
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What is newsworthiness?
what makes a story newsworthy - negative - relevance - extraordinary
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What is nominalisation?
a process in which a verb or verb group is transformed into a noun
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What are notifications?
instead of going to the information, it comes to you, usually in the form of an e-mail or into an RSS reader
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What is a noun phrase?
word or group of words with a noun at its head
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What is onomatopeia?
stylistic device that refers to words that sound like what they represent
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What is paralanguage?
aspects of communication functioning in conjunction with verbal language
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What is pathos?
appeal to one's sense of emotion
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What is pay-per click?
ads that only generate revenue for the host website once the user has clicked on the link or the ad
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What is personalization?
way sites engage users, like creating an account, logging on, or editing a profile page
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What is personification?
stylistic device where inanimate objects are given human qualities
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What is phonological?
the sound system of a language
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What is a phrase?
unit of language made up of anything from an individual word to several words acting together - smaller than a sentence
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What is a problem/solution technique?
convincing someone they have a problem so you can sell them a solution
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What is a pun?
a play on words, often comic, resulting from a word having multiple meaning, or two words with different meanings but same sounds
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What is 2nd person pov?
use of pronoun 'you', targets reader directly
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What is a semantic field?
group of words that are related or analogous in meaning, often connected with a particular context of use
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What is sensationalism?
language that appeals to emotions
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What is a setting?
setting creates a set of expectations for the reader and an environment for its characters
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What is shock advertising?
used to gain attention through controversy
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What is a simile?
comparison of two things, using 'like' or 'as'
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What is slang?
a deviation in language use from the standardized form of a particular language
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What is a slogan?
a phrase used in a political or commercial campaign repeatedly
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What is social networking?
a structure of individuals and their interdependence on each other
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What is stereotyping?
assigning fixed characteristics to individuals on the basis of their group membership
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What is supercrunching?
how large databases are helping us make decisions everyday, especially on the Internet
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What is a synecdoche?
stylistic device, referring to an entity by one of its parts
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What is testimonial?
story about a personal experience
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What is textuality?
the characteristics that define a text
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What is use of celebrities?
use of celebrities to try to sell us an idea or product, following the line of logic that if the celebrities endorse a product then it must be good

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