English A-Level Terminology

Terms and Phrases to use when analysing texts, from word classes to discourse.

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Capitalised names of people, places and titles
Proper Noun
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A physical, tangible thing
Concrete Noun
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Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter are all...?
Abstract Nouns
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Teacher, Survivor, Learner are all...?
Agents
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A version of a verb which tells you WHEN the action took place
Finite Verb
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Tells the probablilty of something happening
Modal Verb
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Mouse, Monitor, USB, Gigabyte and keyboard are a what?
Lexical Set
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When two words mean the same thing
Synonym
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Dark and light, hot and cold, loud and quiet are all what?
Antonyms
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Warning the reader of what is to come is what?
Foreshadowing
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Giving inanimate objects human qualities
Personification
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Additional information or humour given in brackets, commas or hyphens.
Parenthesis
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Fronted Conjunction
Fronted Conjunction
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Words not used commonly in everyday life
Low Frequency Lexis
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Using 'I' and 'My' in text
First Person
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Using 'You' and 'Your' in text
Second Person
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Using 'You' and 'Your' to address the reader
Direct Address
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Using 'He', 'She' and 'They' in text
Third Person
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Human attributes on animal objects
Anthropormorphism
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Animal attributes on non-animal objects
Zoomorphism
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Everyday, informal language
Colloquialism
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Reference to something outside of the text
Shared Cultural Reference
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Reference to another text outside of the text
Allusion
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Sentence without a finite verb or noun
Minor Sentence
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A sentence with no conjuctions
Simple Sentence
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A sentence with a simple conjunction
Compound
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Sentences which can include 'although' as a conjunction
Complex
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A statement
Declarative
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A question
Interrogative
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A command
Imperative
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A sentence with an '!'
Exclamatory
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A sentence with an '!' and starts with how or what
Exclamative
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Word order
Syntax
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The old fashioned way of saying something
Archaic Language
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When the senses are jumbled
Kinaesthesia
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Something out of place in the text eg - a car in Jane Eyre
Anachronism
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Omission of words/grammatical features
Elipsis
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Words newspapers frequently use
Journalese
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Collocation
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Omission of one or more letters, replaced with an apostrophe
Contraction
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Sliding two words together into one
Elision
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The pronounciation or words
Accent
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A rhetorical question with an answer given right after
Hypophora
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That one, over there, this one are what?
Deixis
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Words/sounds to show you're listening
Back-channel
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Words to weaken what is being said
Hedge
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Utterances to be polite
Phatic talk
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Sounds/words to allow you time to think
Filled pause
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Speaker stops and either repeats or reforms sentence
False Start
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Single/multiple words repeated
Repetition
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People talking over each other
Overlap
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Someone cutting the other off
Interruption
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Complete unit of talk
Utterance
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Double negative is an example of what?
Non standard grammar
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'What I mean is' is an example of what?
Repair
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What type of question is added to the end of a declarative
Tag
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Calling someone by their name is using the...?
Vocative
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Calling someone by their title is using the...?
Honorific
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A predictable two part exchange is know as a what?
Adjacency Pair
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Glottal Stop
Glottal Stop
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Switching languages in an utterance or text
Code Switching
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The term for someone who controls the conversation topics
Agenda Setter
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When the meaning of something turns bad over time
Pejoration
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When the meaning of something turns good over time
Amelioration
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Adjacency pair but with three people
Tripartite Structure
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Adjacency pair but with 4+ people
Adjacency chain
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unnecessary repetition
Tautology
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Repetition of unnecessary words eg - the, a, an
Pleonasm
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Leaves the agent out of the sentence or at the end
Passive Voice
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I'm fed up with X, I'm fed up with Y, I'm fed up with Z. This is an example of?
Anaphora
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Representing an idea with two adectives with and in the middle
Hendiadys
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Aserting something by denying its opposite eg - I'm not unhappy - is?
Litotes
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A poite term to avoid being harsh or blunt
Euphemism
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Purposefully being blunt or harsh
Dysphemism
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Alliteration of vowels
Assonance
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Terms and phrases only you use
Idiolect
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Card 2

Front

A physical, tangible thing

Back

Concrete Noun

Card 3

Front

Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter are all...?

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Teacher, Survivor, Learner are all...?

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

A version of a verb which tells you WHEN the action took place

Back

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