English Terminology Quiz Part 1

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nouns which are typically used without determiners and give names to people, places or things – they always have a capital letter
Proper Noun
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things of substance
Concrete Noun
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ideas – things without substance
Abstract Noun
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a noun which will have an emotional impact upon the reader
Emotive Noun
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any term which is specific to a field and not generally understood
Jargon
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a term to describe an area of language to do with a certain field
Semantic Field
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the dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
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the associations or the flavour of a word
Connotation
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refers to how words occur together regularly and in a restricted way
Collocation
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bigger, smaller, more beautiful
Comparative Adjective
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biggest, smallest, most beautiful
Superlative Adjective
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when an adjective is used to pre modify the noun
Attributive Adjective
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when an adjective is the complement of the sentence – as in “the car is big”
Predicative Adjective
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describes the objective appearance of a noun
Descriptive Adjective
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an adjective which is a judgement on its noun, and so is subjective
Evaluative Adjective
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an adjective which will have an emotional impact upon the reader
Emotive Adjective
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a word with the same meaning
Synonym
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a word with the opposite meaning
Antonym
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the more specific term – e.g. red admiral
Hyponym
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the more general term – e.g. insect
Hypernym
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things of substance

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Concrete Noun

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ideas – things without substance

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Card 4

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a noun which will have an emotional impact upon the reader

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Card 5

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any term which is specific to a field and not generally understood

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