English Terminology


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Common Noun
A name for something, >>Man, Penguin, Ghost...
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Abstract Noun
A naming word for an idea, state of being or belief or a concept, >> Sadness, Love, Politics...
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Proper Noun
A naming word for a specific example of a common noun, >> Ellie, Clark, Lloyd, Sam...
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Verb
An action or process, >> A 'doing' word
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Active Verb
A word that represents a physical action, >> Jump, Run, Kiss..
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Stative Verb
A word that represents a process that is often only mental, >> Love, Think, Believe...
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Auxillary Verb
A verb that has to be used with another verb to create present or future tense, >> I AM going; YOU WILL go...
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Modal Verb
An Auxillary verb that expresses a degree of possibility or neccessity, >> might, could, must..
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Adjective
A describing word, >> Beautiful, Ugly, Happy...
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Superlative
An adjective that describes the most extreme value of its quality, >> Biggest, Smallest, Prettiest...
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Third Person
>>Him, Her, She... >> Plural: Them, Those..
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Posessive Pronoun
>> My, Mine, Our, Your, His, Hers...
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Register
The level of formallity in a text
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Tenor
The tone, or the relationship between the author and the reader, and how it is created
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Content
What the text is about
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Context
The things outside of a text which shapes the meaning of it
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Form
The structure and shape of a text
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Parenthesis
An aside within a text created by sectioning off extra information, >> (), --, (,,)
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Rhetorical Question
A question designed not to be answered.
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Hypophora
When a rhetorical question is followed by an answer immediately
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Parellelism
a pattern created in a text through repetition or through structures
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Repetition
Words or phrases repeated in a piece of text
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Imagery
A descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture
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Pre- Modification
A descriptive technique where the descriptive word comes before the things they are describing, >> the big, ugly dog
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Post- Modification
A descriptive technique where the descriptive word comes after the thing they are describing, >> the dog, big and ugly
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Pathetic Fallacy
When the enviroment or weather mirrors emotions
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Archaism
An old word that has fallen out of common use over a period of time
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Collocations
Words that are meant to go together, >> Fish and Chips
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Onoamatopoeia
Words that sound like what they are describing, >> BANG
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Ambiguity
More than one possible meaning for a word
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Neologism
A newly invented word
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Taboo
Words that are socially
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Connotation
The associations that can be gleamed from words
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Denotation
The literal meaning of a word
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Pun
A play on words
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Turn Taking
co-ordinated and rule governed co-operation between two or more participants in a conversation
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Adjacency Pairs
A moment in turn taking where one utterance constrains the response in some way
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Back Chanelling
The process of giving feedback through making noises, and showing that you are listening, >> hmmm
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Slang
Colloquialsms used by the younger generations
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False Starts
The speaker realises that the beginning of an utterance isn't working properly and effectively restarts their sentence
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Fillers
The insertion of words, phrases or noises in to a conversation, >> ye, ok, er..
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Tag Question
A Question tagged onto the end of a sentence
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Ellision
The emmision of a vowel or syllable in the pronunciation of a word, >> it's either one or t'other..
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Sociolect
The vocabulary and pronunciation that comes from a certain group
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Idiolect
The speech patterns of an individual
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Hedges
A word or phrase used to avoid overprecise commitment, >> often, sometimes..
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Deixis
Words that cannot be fully understood without contextual factors
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Ellipsis
Leaving out words where a sentence will still make sense without them, >> what you doing?
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Graphology
The visual features of a text, >> bullet points, images, boxes, typography, colours, punctuation..
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Abbreviation
A word shortened down yet still makes sense, >> television-tele
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Acronym
Where the intitials of a word has a meaning, >> BFG, Big Friendly Giant
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Antonym
A word opposite to another, >> Good and Bad
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Jargon
Technical Language
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Lexical Field
Words that follow a certain subject, >> Education- School, Teachers, Students, Folders, Homework etc..
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Emotive Lexis
Words that portray emotion, >> Unhappy, Sad, Loving, Ecstatic..
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Alliteration
Two or more words that start with the same letter, >> Excited Ellie
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Assonance
Sounds like S-S
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Fricatives
Sounds like Z-Z
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Bathos
Used to delibritately produce humour
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Convergence
To come towards something/ someone, >> Change your accent to sound like somebody, share common ground
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Divergence
Change your accent to sound the opposite of somebody, share no common ground at all
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Dysphemism
Making something sound worse than it really is, >> The stupid cow
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Euphemism
Making something sound better than it really is, >> The silly woman
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Simile
Using as or like to make a comparison, >> the boy ate like a pig
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Hypernyms
The over riding term, >> Dog
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Hyponyms
Umberalla terms, >> golden retriever, jack russel, chiuaha..
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A naming word for an idea, state of being or belief or a concept, >> Sadness, Love, Politics...

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Abstract Noun

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A naming word for a specific example of a common noun, >> Ellie, Clark, Lloyd, Sam...

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An action or process, >> A 'doing' word

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A word that represents a physical action, >> Jump, Run, Kiss..

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