Lexis And Semantics

Question 1

What are lexical fields

Answer 1

Groups of words related by subject or theme

Question 2

What is denotation

Answer 2

The literal meaning of a word

Question 3

______ is the idea or feeling a word invokes

Answer 3

Connotation

Question 4

What are synonyms

Answer 4

Are words that have similar or identical meanings

Question 5

What are words with opposite meanings?

Answer 5

Synonyms

Question 6

What are words with opposite meanings (opposite of synonyms)

Answer 6

Antonyms

Question 7

What are hypernyms?

Answer 7

Words that represent a catergory of things

Question 8

What come under Hypernyms?

Answer 8

Hyponyms

Question 9

What are semantic fields ?

Answer 9

Areas of meaning that words belong to

Question 10

_____ are used to soften or disguise true meanings

Answer 10

Euphemisms

Question 11

What are dysphemisms?

Answer 11

opposite of a euphemism
Emphasises the negative, comic effect

Question 12

List rhetorical frameworks

Answer 12

Juxtaposition
Hyperbole
Reiteration
Rhetorical Question
Syntactic Parallelism
Synthetic Personalisation
Triadic Structure

Question 13

What are some parallel constructions?

Answer 13

Anadiplosis- finishing your sentence with a word and repeating it at the start of the next sentence
Syntactic Parallelism- repetition of a word at the beginning of a sentence
Anaphora- repeat words at the beginning of each line
Epifora- repeat words at the end of each line