Key Words

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Strong Expostulations
Strong swear words
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Colloquial Lexis
Text contains lots of colloquialisms and slang.
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Evaluative Lexis
Lots of words that analyse how good or bad things are.
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Tag Questions
Tagged onto the end of a sentence e.g. 'Don't you?'
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Multiple Modality
Mixing fact with opinions, personal beliefs.
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Reduplications
Part or sound in a word is repeated.
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Figurative Language
Goes beyond literal meaning for new insights or effect. E.g. metaphors.
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Dialect
The words somebody uses, dependent on where they are from.
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Prefix
Affix added at the start of a word to change the word E.g. un-kind.
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Compound sentence
2 or more independent clauses, joined by a connective.
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Complex sentence
1 main clause and a subordinate clause.
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Imperatives
Gives instruction.
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Ellision
The joining of two words e.g. Going to- gonna.
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Ellipsis
Omission of part of grammatical structure.
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Idioms
Everyday phrases that do not make sense literally.
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Anthropomorphism
An animal being described as having human qualities.
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Amelioration
Change of the meaning of a word from bad to good.
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Satire
Serious topic in a mocking tone.
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Irony
A writer says something but means something else.
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What does GAP split into?
Form and structure, audience and purpose.
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Allusions
Reference to texts outside this one.
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Grand Phrases
Fancy terms.
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Form
Refers to shape or layout.
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Structure
The way topics and ideas are arranged. Develops tension and shapes meaning. Things are revealed when the writer wants them to be.
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Context of reception
How the audience first reacted when it was released, what was going on at the time.
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Context of production
What was going on during the time the writer was wrtiing to help shape the text. Every writer is a product of their context.
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Transactional talk
Conversations, one topic, built on transaction taking place.
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Phatic talk
Relationship building.
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Context dependant
Word choice effected by surrounding/ context.
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Agenda setting
agreeing what is about to be spoken about.
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Anti-thesis
The placing of opposite meanings together.
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Assonence
the repetition of vowel sounds.
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Syntax
The arrangement of words to show relationship of meanings within the sentence.
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Collocation
Writers tendency to place certain words in close proximity to each other, highly dependent on context.
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Humour: Blue and Black
Sexual and morbid.
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Parody
Exaggerates certain features for comedic effect.
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Text contains lots of colloquialisms and slang.

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Colloquial Lexis

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Lots of words that analyse how good or bad things are.

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Tagged onto the end of a sentence e.g. 'Don't you?'

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Mixing fact with opinions, personal beliefs.

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