Language In Social Media Flashcards
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What is an adjective
A word naming an attribute of a noun such as ‘sweet’ or ‘red’
What is an adverb?
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies and adjective,verb,or phrase, expressing a relation of time, place or manner eg gently, then, quite
What’s a cloaked imperative?
A word is added to make the imperative softer Eg please open the window
What’s collocation?
The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance eg fish and chips
What’s colloquialism?
A word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used ordinary or familiar conversations eg wanna
What’s connotations?
An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning Eg discipline connotes punishment
What’s deixis?
A words or phrase (such as ‘this’ ‘that’) that pints to the time, place or situation in which the speaker is speaking.
What’s a determiner?
A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun has eg ‘a chicken’ ‘the chicken’
What’s disinformation?
False information spread deliberately to deceive a subset of misinformation, which may be unintentional.
What’s an elliptical clause?
A type of dependent, or subordinate clause that’s is missing a word or words often the missing part is a verb or phrase.
What’s an exclamative?
Exclamative sentences are used to make exclamations.
What’s fake news?
A neologism often used to refer to fabricated news
What’s figurative language?
A word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday literal meaning.
What’s fixed belief?
Whatever you may consider to be absolute truth.
What’s a hyperbole?
An exaggeration.Not meant to be taken literally.
What’s an imperative clause?
Clauses which most commonly function as commands, instructions or orders
What’s an interrogative?
A type of sentence that asks a question as opposed to sentences that make a statement deliver a command or express an exclamation.
What’s micro-targeting?
A marketing strategy that uses consumer data and demographics to identify the interests of individuals and influence their actions.
What’s a noun?
A word (other than pronoun) used to identify a class of people, places or things.
What’s pre modification?
In a pre-modified noun phrase information is added before a noun Eg determiners adverbs, adjectives
What’s a pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun in a sentence. She, it, he
What’s propaganda?
Information of a biased or misleading nature used to promote a political point of view
What’s a rhetorical question?
A figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer.
What’s a simple sentence?
A sentence consisting of only one clause with a single subject and predicate.
