Language terminology Flashcards

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The cats out the bag

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idiom

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gone to a better place

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euphamism and idiom

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rise and fall of the voice when speaking

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intonation

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conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors

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adjacency pairs

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adjacency pairs

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conversational turn-taking between two interlocutors

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play on words

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pun

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7
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litotes

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a deliberate understatement

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deliberate understatement

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litotes

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9
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name prosodic features 5

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  • changes in pitch
  • volume
  • pauses
  • stress
  • speed
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10
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stichomythia

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rapid-fire dialogue of two characters speak alternating short or single lines of verse.

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rapid fire lines or phrases of dialogue between two characters

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stichomythia

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12
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giving humans animalistic traits

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zoomorphism

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13
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collocation

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two words that fit perfectly together

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14
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words that fit perfectly with one another

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collocation

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15
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a text that can be coordinated through different forms

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multimodal

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I will never ever, ever, ever.

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epzeuxis (epi zook sis)

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Reppetition of a word in immediate sucsession

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a characters individual voice

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a newly formed word

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speach used by parents and caregivers towards children

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Child- directed speech

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Transgressive

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crossing of boundaries

22
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neo classical and classical

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whom believe all art should imitate precedents and genres created by artists of classical civilizations (greece, rome). Classical is art that originated from classical civilisations.

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assonance

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repeating of vowel sound (close,low,clouds,verbose)

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Absurdist theatre

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a genre where impossible or ridiculous events make a statement about the absurdness of reality.

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exuent vs exit
multiple vs one person leaving the stage
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Aside
a remark made by a character which other characters cannot hear
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monologue
speach of one character if a play, no other cast present
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Picaresque
protagonists travels and encounters more important than character.
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Epistolery
novel written in the form of an exchange of letters
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interleaving
telling of several stories in one text, stories woven into eachother.
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symbolism
symbol represents a concept
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Meta
moments when text goes beyond its fictionality and makes the audience aware of its own fictionality
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ludic
a text that plays into the readers expectations e.g expectations of the locked door murder mystery.
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burlesque
satire that uses characature
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diatribe
rant or angry speech of denunciation- informing against someone,publically condemning.
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Allegory
close one- to- one comparison. e.g a book ab a hive being an allegory for 21st centuary england (queen, workers and soldiers)
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pathetic
appealing to emotions
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