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1. What is an ellipsis

  • a word or phrase that returns the conversation to a previous topic
  • The omission of words for economical reasons or because the context means that the person listening understands the shortened utterance
  • A series of dots
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2. What are 'there' and 'their' an example of? and what are they

  • Homophone -words pronounced the same but have different meanings and may have different spellings
  • Heterephone- words that have the same spelling but very different pronunciation and meanings

3. A break from the pattern which is set up in the text is known as what?

  • Internal Deviation
  • External Deviation
  • Parrallelism

4. Prosodics is the study of what?

  • The area of study concerned with investigating how sounds are actually produced by language users
  • How speakers can shape meanings through emphasising certain aspects of intonation, speed and volume
  • The area of study that refers to the more abstract sound system

5. Cosmetic Surgery is an example of a what?

  • Collocation
  • Idiom
  • Euphemism
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