Terminology

A glossary of linguistic terms - terminology on one side, definitions on the other.

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Ambiguity
When words can have more than one type of interpretation.
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Asyndetic Listing
Listing without a conjunction, e.g. pizza, chips, beans.
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Bathos
A fall from something important to not as important, e.g. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Characterisation
How a character's personality is revealed to the reader.
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Initial caesura
A pause towards the start of a line of poetry.
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Medial caesura
A pause towards the middle of a line of poetry.
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Terminal caesura
A pause towards the end of the line.
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Colloquial language
The linguistic term for slang.
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Didactic
If a text seeks to teach a moral to the reader, it is 'didactic'.
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Dramatic monologue
When a writer assumes a persona and gives a performance as that person.
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Ellipsis
When words are cut out of a clause or sentence.
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Empathy
When the reader starts to accept the views and values of a character as their own.
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False start
When a person begins an utterance, then goes back to correct themselves.
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Figurative language
Non-literal language such as similes and metaphors.
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Idiolect
A person's unique way of speaking and writing.
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Interlocutor
A participant in verbal speech with someone else.
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Mode
Whether a text is written or spoken.
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Parallelism
Where phrases next to each other are constructed in a similar way.
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Pathos
When the reader's emotions are manipulated to feel sympathy for characters.
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Prosodic features
Things which affect verbal speech, e.g. tone, pitch and volume.
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Refrain
A repeated line or phrase in a text.
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Repair
An utterance that resolves a problem in a conversation.
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Rhetoric language
Language used to persuade, e.g. hyperbole, repetition.
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Tenor
The social relationship between the writer and reader, affecting the lexis used.
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Card 2

Front

Listing without a conjunction, e.g. pizza, chips, beans.

Back

Asyndetic Listing

Card 3

Front

A fall from something important to not as important, e.g. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

How a character's personality is revealed to the reader.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

A pause towards the start of a line of poetry.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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