Meaning and Representation - patterns

Question 1

Adjectivial phrase

Answer 1

A group of words grouped around an adjective

Question 2

What can adjectives be?

Answer 2

descriptive (smart), comparative (smarter), superlative (smartest). They can pre-modify and post-modify.

Question 3

What are the different adverbs?

Answer 3

Time, place, frequency, degree, manner

Question 4

What do adjectival phrases do in texts?

Answer 4

They help position the reader’s responses to be seen as positive or negative.

Question 5

Give an example of a minor sentence

Answer 5

Darlington

Question 6

Give an example of a simple sentence.

Answer 6

We love Darlington.

Question 7

Give an example of a compound sentence.

Answer 7

We love Darlington and we want to live here forever.

Question 8

Give an example of a complex sentence.

Answer 8

Although it smells, we love Darlington and want to live here forever.

Question 9

What do minor sentences do?

Answer 9

They lower the register and can mirror speech patterns

Question 10

What can simple sentences do?

Answer 10

They deliver short, emphatic, simplified messages

Question 11

Waht can compound sentences do?

Answer 11

They provide more detail by delivering two equally weighted ideas

Question 12

What do complex sentences do?

Answer 12

they can convey sophisticated messages, balancing main ideas against subordinating points.

Question 13

What is implicature?

Answer 13

Implied meanings included for the reader to infer.

Question 14

What should you comment on in pragmatics in the texts?

Answer 14

irony, assumptions about the reader, intertextuality, schematic knowledge

Question 15

First person singular pronouns

Answer 15

I, me, my - personalised message

Question 16

first person plural pronouns

Answer 16

we, us, our - collective opinion, inclusive

Question 17

second person pronouns

Answer 17

you, your - direct address, synthetic personalisation

Question 18

What should you look for in texts with pronouns?

Answer 18

gendered assumptions

Question 19

What terms should you use when talking about pronouns?

Answer 19

Personalisation, inclusive address, direct address, synthetic personalisation, anaphora and cataphora

Question 20

what are nouns?

Answer 20

nouns name things, people, places, ideas

Question 21

nouns can be:

Answer 21

abstract, concrete, common, proper, collective

Question 22

interrogatives

Answer 22

questions - rhetorical? tag? loaded?

Question 23

imperatives?

Answer 23

direct/indirect?

Question 24

Blended-mode texts

Answer 24

Containing interrogatives, imperatives and exclamatices often address the reader using speech features

Question 25

What are rhetorical devices

Answer 25

skillful uses of language designed to persuade and influence the implied reader

Question 26

antithesis

Answer 26

two opposites

Question 27

hyperbole

Answer 27

overexagguration

Question 28

metaphor

Answer 28

saying something is something else

Question 29

copular verb

Answer 29

"to be"

Question 30

modal verbs

Answer 30

express a writer's attitude (express certainty, possibility, willingness, obligation, necessity and ability)

Question 31

modal verbs can be linked to what?

Answer 31

power

Question 32

Active voice

Answer 32

"i love you"

Question 33

passive voice

Answer 33

"you are loved by me" - often depersonalizes and formalises the message. It puts focus on the action rather than the do-er of the action

Question 34

simple aspect

Answer 34

"i love you"

Question 35

progressive aspect

Answer 35

"i am loving you" - the action is continuous, taking place over a length of time

Question 37

Cohesive devices

Answer 37

structural devices that encourage you to keep reading

Question 38

Cohesion

Answer 38

the bridge between lexis, sentencing and paragraphing

Question 39

Cohesive devices

Answer 39

words or phrases that link forward (cataphora) and backward (anaphora)

Question 40

Ellipsis

Answer 40

omission of words

Question 41

elision

Answer 41

omission of letters and sounds

Question 42

deixis

Answer 42

context-dependent language

Question 43

non-standard punctuation

Answer 43

e.g. multiple exclamtion marks

Question 44

varied font-sizes

Answer 44

suggests speaker's prosodic features