Lexis Flashcards

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Lexis

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Words

Giant sparkly happy

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Noun phrase

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A group of words that describe a noun -

The happy man

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Concrete noun

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A physical thing

Table

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Proper noun

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A name of a person/ place

London,Sinead

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Abstract noun

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A concept / idea

Love sadness

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Collective noun

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A collection/ crowd

Group heard

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Modifier

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Changes noun

Sensational,terrible

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Determiner

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Determines noun

The, a, an

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Compound word

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Two words that make one

She-hulk, ant - man

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Indefinite article

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Word for ‘a’

Some

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Intensifier

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Makes modifier even stronger

Very,really

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Pronoun

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Word that stands in place of a noun

‘Sinead’s ‘

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Possessive pronoun

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Owned by someone

( my, mine , his’

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Relational verbs

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Being

( james was upset ‘

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Action verbs

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Happening

‘ the peach SWELLED’

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Cognition perception

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Seeing feeling

‘James FELT upset’

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Speech verbs

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Speaking verbs

‘Aunt sponge SHOUTED’

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Pre - positional phrase

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Position / relation to

by her , next to her

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Benignly

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Good intentions / harmless

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Malign

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Bad intentions / harmful

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Negation

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The contradiction or denial of somthing

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Present simple

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It happens now

‘I smile’

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Present continuous

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It’s still happening

‘I am smiling’

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Present perfect

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It happens commonly

I have smiled

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Present perfect continuous
It started in the past and has continued up to the present moment (I have been smiling)
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Past simple
It happens then | I smiled
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Past continuous
It happened for a while then, probably when something else was happening (I was smiling)
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Past perfect
It happened before some other action or time in the past | I had smiled
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Past perfect continuous
It started in the past and continued to another point in the past (I had to be smiling)
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Foregrounding
An attention grabbing strategy
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Parallelism
The formation of patterns
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Deviation
The breaking of patterns
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Interrogative sentence
Question sentence What are you doing?
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Exclamatory sentence
Loud exclamative What are you doing!
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Imperative sentence
Command sentence Go away.
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Indicative/ declarative sentence
Factual / no special information The pig walked.
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Free indirect style
3rd person narrative where the narrator adopts the voice of the character. (The bond text) could he do it?
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Dynamic verbs
Verbs of action / movement To stand to jump
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Stative verbs
Verbs of fixed position Feeling being having to own
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Auxiliary verbs primary
Used to create new tense To be to have to do
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Auxiliary verbs model
Affect meaning liklihood, permission, ablity , obligation Can ,could, would, should , shall , must , ought, may , might
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Negation
Any word that connotes a negative No, not , neither , nor
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Frame narration
Story framed in another story Narrator telling story in story
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Disclosure
Line of argument
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Systematic linguistic devices
In a logical system
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Epigraph
Is a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter usually intended to suggest its theme
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Anarchy
Chaos / absence of rule
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Analepsis
Flashback
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Allusion
Reference to another text | Literary reference
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Focaliser
The character’s veiwpoint is focus in the text | James bond