Key Words, Chapter 12

Question 1

Aktionsart

Answer 1

German for “kind of action”

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

pronouns and other terms referring back to a previous clause or textual unit

Question 3

Aposiopesis

Answer 3

the breaking off of a speech or statement owing to strong emotion, modesty, or other reasons

Question 4

Aspect

Answer 4

a writer’s choice to present a given action from a particular vantage point

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

lack of a conjunction at the beginning of a sentence

Question 6

Brachylogy

Answer 6

the omission, for the sake of brevity, of an element which is not necessary for the grammatical structure but for the thought

Question 7

Chiasm

Answer 7

ABB’A’ pattern

Question 8

Clause

Answer 8

any meaningful cluster of words that includes a verb

Question 9

Closure

Answer 9

the concluding statement in a given discourse unit

Question 10

Cohesion

Answer 10

the glue that holds a discourse together

Question 11

Discourse

Answer 11

any coherent sequence of phrases or sentences, whether a narrative, logical argument, or poetic portion of text

Question 12

Discourse analysis

Answer 12

a study of a textual unit for the purpose of discerning various features of the text such as boundary markers, cohesion, prominence, relations, and situatedness

Question 13

Discourse boundary

Answer 13

the opening and closing phrases or devices marking the beginning and end of a given discourse unit

Question 14

Ellipsis

Answer 14

a feature by which an incomplete idea requires the reader to supply a missing element which is self-evident

Question 15

Grammar

Answer 15

specific features of syntax, such as a certain kind of genitive or participle (form)

Question 16

Hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena)

Answer 16

a word occurring only once in the Old or New Testament

Question 17

Hendiadys

Answer 17

an arrangement of two or more expressions that essentially convey the same idea

Question 18

Implicature

Answer 18

implicit yet necessary information for understanding a given discourse

Question 19

Inclusio

Answer 19

the occurrence of a given word or phrase at the beginning and at the end of a discourse unit for the purpose of marking this portion of material as a textual unit

Question 20

Orienter

Answer 20

an initial marker indicating a boundary feature in a given discourse

Question 21

Parataxis

Answer 21

unconnected juxtaposition of sentence units or clauses

Question 22

Peaking

Answer 22

the height of action reached in a particular discourse unit

Question 23

Pericope

Answer 23

narrative unit

Question 24

Phrase

Answer 24

any meaningful word cluster that lacks a verb form

Question 25

Pleonasm

Answer 25

a form of redundancy by which a previously expressed idea is repeated as a way of speaking

Question 26

Prominence

Answer 26

elements in a discourse that stand out, be it by way of natural or marked prominence

Question 27

Relations

Answer 27

various ways in which statements or propositions are conjoined in a given text

Question 28

Semantics

Answer 28

concerned with the meaning of individual words based on the recognition that word meaning is to be discerned in context

Question 29

Sentence

Answer 29

any complete thought expressed in form of one or several independent clauses

Question 30

Situation

Answer 30

the real life-setting of a given discourse

Question 31

Staging

Answer 31

the presentation of setting of a given action or event

Question 32

Syntax

Answer 32

refers more broadly to relationships between words in the larger scheme of discourses and sentence structures

Question 33

Tail-headed link

Answer 33

mention of a topic at the end of a section to be developed in the following unit

Question 34

Thought flow

Answer 34

discourse structure as conveyed by various discourse features per discourse analysis

Question 35

Zeugma

Answer 35

a special type of ellipsis in which a different verb is to be supplied