English Terminology

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Deliberate Understatement
Litotes
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Complimentary Language
Laudatory
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Specialist, Niche language
Jargon
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Repetition of first letter
Alliteration
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Being vague and less blunt
Hedging
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Missing words in sentence
Ellipsis
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Missing letters in a word
Ellison
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Indicators that person is listening
Back Channeling
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Words to check person is listening
Monitoring Features
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Addressing person with amazement
Percontatio
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Socially acceptable way of saying something expletive
Euphemism
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Refusal to go into detail
Occupatio
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Putting self down
Diminutio
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Repeating structure of sentence
Isocolon
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All seeing narrator (Third person)
Omniscent
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A term for part of something refers to the whole e.g. the crown = royal family
Synecdoche
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Re-cap over topic covered
Transitio
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Card 2

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Complimentary Language

Back

Laudatory

Card 3

Front

Specialist, Niche language

Back

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Card 4

Front

Repetition of first letter

Back

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Card 5

Front

Being vague and less blunt

Back

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