The blended mode

Question 1

Rhetorical questions

Answer 1

a question that is not intended to be answered, or that the speaker/writer answers him/herself

Question 2

Triad

Answer 2

a pattern of three words or phrases

Question 3

Syntactic parallelism

Answer 3

The repetition of sentence structure: ‘If she trusted him, she had to believe him. If she loved him, she had to trust him’.

Question 4

Dialect

Answer 4

the language variety of a geographical region or social group

Question 5

First person narrative

Answer 5

a story or account written from the I position

Question 6

Synthetic personalisation

Answer 6

where a writer/speaker uses the second person pronoun (you) to synthesise or fake a personal relation to the audience.

Question 7

Computer-mediated communication (CMC)

Answer 7

Communication achieved by means of computer technology

Question 8

Synchronous communication

Answer 8

a communication in which both/all participants are present at the same time

Question 9

Asynchronous communication

Answer 9

a communication in which participants do not need to be present simultaneously.

Question 10

Adjacency pair

Answer 10

two utterances by different speakers that have a natural and logical link, and complete an idea together.