English Terminology Revision

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Imperative sentence
Instruction
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Declarative
Statement
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Parallel structure
Where parts of texts are the same.
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Syntactic Parallelism
Where sentence structure is repeated.
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Syndetic list
A list connected with a conjunction (and/because/etc)
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Asyndetic list
A list using only commas.
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Interrogatives
Questions
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Complex sentence
Two sentences (main and sub clause)
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Compound sentence
Two simple sentences joined by FATBOYS (For, And, Then, But, Or, Yet, So).
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Complex/compound sentence
A simple sentence and a complex joined by FATBOYS
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Simple sentence
One clause
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Nouns
An object, place, or thing
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Determiners
Words which identify extra information about a noun.
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Proper nouns
People, places (using a capital letter)
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Mass noun
E.g Children (more than one)
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Modal verbs
Auxiliary verbs which express the possibility and likelihood of an event.
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Diacotomy
Opposite clauses.
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Metonym
A symbol which is used to describe a whole thing.
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Connotation
An association
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Collocation
Ways in which words tend to occur together (common, regular, normal)
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Assonance
Recurring vowel sounds in words using different consonants (vowel rhyme)
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Syntax
The grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence.
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Genre
A particular type or style of literature, art, film or music.
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Typography
The planning and selections of font for printing.
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Paralinguistic features
Facial expressions, body language that adds to what the speaker is saying.
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Self-correct
Going back and changing something (correcting it).
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Non-fluency features
Typical characteristic features of speech which interfere with the flow of conversation.
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Deixis
Verbal 'pointers'-'this, that, there'
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Back-channeling
Features to show that someone is listening
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Phatic
Small talk
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Non-linear
A conversation that does not follow a chronological structure.
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Utterances
Complete units of speech
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Ellision
Joining words together-'don't- do + not'
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Dialect
What you see/read
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Accent
What you hear
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Non-sequitar
Not following (doesn't make sense)
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Place holder
Speakers indicate that they are carrying on
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Tag-questions
Statements that are portrayed as a question
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Idiolect
A distinctive style of speaking
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Assertion
Opinion as fact.
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Locution
Literal meaning of the utterance
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Perlocution
How it is received by the reader
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Illocution
Intention of speaker
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Card 2

Front

Statement

Back

Declarative

Card 3

Front

Where parts of texts are the same.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Where sentence structure is repeated.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

A list connected with a conjunction (and/because/etc)

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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