English terms 4.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English Language & LiteratureA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: NatashaCreated on: 09-05-13 15:22 Alliteration A pattern in which one consonant is repeated 1 of 51 Ellipsis Omission of words, verbs missing 2 of 51 Melodrama Sensational story with violent and improble events 3 of 51 Morpheme Smallest meaningful unit of speech 4 of 51 Pantheist God is everything 5 of 51 Patriarchy Culture organized by masculine values 6 of 51 Phonaesthemic Sound and meaning through association 7 of 51 Stream of consciousness Abandoms compositions of properly formed sentences to catch flow of characters thoughts and feelings 8 of 51 Layered narrative A single story deals with several major themes 9 of 51 Marxist criticism Basis of socio-economic reflect class struggles role of individuals in society 10 of 51 Metaphor A figure of speech applied does not literally belong to it imply resemblance 11 of 51 Revenge tragedy Recounts on characters revenge on another 12 of 51 Surrealism Represents dream like state, distorted 13 of 51 Tragic hero Downfall inevitable tragic flaw in character 14 of 51 Duologue Scene between two characters 15 of 51 Existentialism The idea we are shaped by the choices that we make rather possessing innate qualites 16 of 51 Hegemony Diverse culture ruled or dominated by 1 group or class 17 of 51 Metatheatre Drama about drama soliloquies 18 of 51 Naturalistic Illusion of reality, behave unware of audience mirror real world as closely as possible 19 of 51 Paradox self-contradictory statement/absurd 20 of 51 Protagonist Centre character, focus of the play 21 of 51 Reversal of expectation Surprises audience by changing whole course of the story 22 of 51 Strong curtain Maxmise suspense, before outcome 23 of 51 Well made play has a clear structure, exposition tells us what we need to know, development and complication bring situation to crisis point, resolution 24 of 51 Oxymoron Joining of two words or phases that are complete opposites 25 of 51 Assonance The repeating of identical or similar vowel sounds in sequence of words 26 of 51 Compound sentence Made by two simple sentences together 27 of 51 Complex sentence two or more clauses, subject and verb 28 of 51 Common Nouns Object can see 29 of 51 Abstract nouns Thoughts, ideas, emotions 30 of 51 Collective nouns group, herd 31 of 51 Adjective Describing word 32 of 51 Adverb Describing how verb is done 33 of 51 Elision can't, i'll 34 of 51 Fillers erm 35 of 51 Assumes shared knowledge: deictic over there, that one 36 of 51 adjacency pairs two part exchange follows a predictable pattern 37 of 51 Denotation straight forward meaning 38 of 51 connotation associated meaning 39 of 51 Dialect regional language used 40 of 51 diverage speech style moves away 41 of 51 hedge reduces force something is said 42 of 51 tag question strong of words added to turn declarative into question 43 of 51 prosodic feature meaning of message, stress 44 of 51 colloquial language use of everyday speech 45 of 51 minor sentence sentence no verb 46 of 51 hyperbole exaggeration for deliberate effect 47 of 51 figurative language words use metaphorically in order to construct composition 48 of 51 syntax arrangement of words 49 of 51 pathos language produce feelings of pity and sorrow 50 of 51 bathos anti-climax, humorous effect 51 of 51
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