English Language Paper 1
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What is dysphemism?
This is when an unpleasant term is used instead of a positive one. For example, 'cancer stick' instead of 'cigarrette'
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What is metonymy?
Using one word for a group/something else: 'the bench' 'the pen is mightier than the sword' 'the pentagon'
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What is a semantic field?
A group of linked words: pink, blue, red
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What are types of nouns?
Concrete nouns 'chair', abstract nouns 'love', proper nouns; names, places
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What are the types of adjectives?
Superlative adjectives 'est' on the end 'biggest' 'largest', comparative adjective 'smaller' 'bigger', descriptive 'handsome', emotive '
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Types of sentencing?
Declaratives, imperatives, interrogatives, exclamatory's
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What is colloquialism?
Informal language
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What is a discourse marker?
A word or phrase which organises language into a section: 'I mean' 'well'
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What is jargon?
Lexis specific to a certain group of people, such as occupational lexis
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What is denotation?
The literal meaning of a word in contrast to what the word suggests
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What are modal verbs?
'Would' 'Could' 'May' 'Might'
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What are articles?
A, the
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What are conjunctions?
And, or, but
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What are auxiliary verbs?
Be, do, have
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What is euphenism?
Saying something unpleasant in a polite way, used alot by politicians
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What are idioms?
'Over the moon' 'in the dog house'
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What is amelioration?
Caused by semantic change when a words original meaning becomes more positive: wicked, nice (used to mean silly)
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What is pejoration?
When the positive original meaning of a word becomes more negative: silly (used to mean holy and happy)
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What are the types of adverbs?
Of time, place, manner, degree
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What is a prepositional sentence?
'Without doubt, with hatred in both eyes, without fear'
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Example of a simple sentence?
'I love you'
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Example of a complex sentence?
'I love you because you give me donuts'
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What is the different between an active and passive voice?
Similar to person, 'The Cat was killed by Ella' is active, whereas 'Ella killed the cat' is passive and takes a back seat
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What can be stated in transcripts / analysed?
Body language, pauses, infer facial expressions and prosodic/phonetic features
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What is morphology?
The study of words / how they are organised / prefixes, suffixes
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What is a morpheme?
A word as its smallest unit and cannot be made into another word
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What is a lexical field?
Hair, head, eyebrow, eyelash
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What is a neoligism?
A new coined word / expression: webinar from web and internet
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What is etymology?
The study of the history of a word and how it has changed, can be linked with amelioration and pejoration
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What is taboo?
Forbidden / badly looked on words: swearing, sex, ****, drugs
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What is collocation?
How words go together; heavy rain, high temperature
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What is juxtaposition?
The contrast of two things seen / next to eachother
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What is a discourse feature to focus on?
Change in topic
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What is an oxymoron?
Words that have opposite meanings 'the same difference' 'cruel to be kind' 'tough love'
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What is tautology?
Saying the same thing twice in different words
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What is pragmatics?
The study of how language creates meaning, similar to semantics
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What did David Crystal state about pragmatics?
It studies the factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction
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What is deixis?
Words that cannot make sense without additional context, 'here', 'me'
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Syntax?
The word order of a sentence can sometimes give context, for example the time that the text was written
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Referent?
Important to cohesion, for example a pronoun must have a referent noun (pronouns antecedent) otherwise it will be ambiguous and vague; 'the PRESIDENT used HIS'
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What is a hyperbole?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
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What is a stative verb?
Word that is mental thinking; love, ponder
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What are the types of pronouns?
Possessive: mine, yours, hers. Demonstrative: this, that, those
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What is tenor?
The tone / relationship between the author
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What is an exclamatory sentence mood?
When a sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion / sense of alarm and overly strong emphassis
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What is a parenthesis?
A text created by sectioning off information between commas, brackets / dashes
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What are litotes?
Deliberate downplaying of things for effect
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What is parallelism / patterning?
Repetition of words / phrases (phonological parallelism), balancing meanings (semantic parallelism)
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What is post modification?
A descriptive word comes before a thing: the big fat cash
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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What is metonymy?
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Using one word for a group/something else: 'the bench' 'the pen is mightier than the sword' 'the pentagon'
Card 3
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What is a semantic field?
Back
Card 4
Front
What are types of nouns?
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Card 5
Front
What are the types of adjectives?
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