AS English Language Terminology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Auxiliary/Modal Verb | 'should', 'would', 'could' |
| Abstract Noun | 'dream', 'idea' |
| Collective Noun | 'Flock', 'herd' |
| Hypernym | 'Furniture' |
| Adjective | 'Small', 'Dark', 'Large' |
| Prepositions | 'on', 'beneath', 'against', 'beside', 'over', 'during' |
| Determiners | 'those', 'this', 'that', 'my', 'your', 'his', 'a', 'an' |
| Blend | 'Smog' = smoke/fog |
| Collocation | 'Driving Rain', 'Totally Awesome', 'Completely forgot' |
| Colloquial Language | 'Aint', 'Dunno' |
| Alliteration | 'The sun sizzled softly...', 'The waves washed wistfully' |
| Assonance | 'The rain in spain falls mainly on the plains', 'How now brown cow', The man with the tan wasw the meanest in the land' |
| Onomatopaeia | 'Snap, crackle, pop', 'buzz', 'squish', 'woof', 'meow', 'tweet', 'thud', 'splash' |
| Emotive Langugae (in particular adjectives/adverbs) | 'That is sad', 'I'm very happy that you decided to come' |
| Cliche | 'Easy as 1, 2, 3', 'Very good', |
| Rhetorical Question | 'How am I supposed to live without you?', 'Don't you agree?' |
| Comparatives | 'Better' |
| Contraction | 'Can't', 'Don't', 'Won't' |
| Deictic | 'Pass me that over there', 'I will have to go, my train is here now' |
| Dynamic Verbs | 'Play', 'Melt', 'Hit' |
| Stative Verbs | 'Hate', 'Believe', 'Contain', 'Own' |
| Elision | 'Lotta', 'Sorta' |
| Co-Ordinating Conjunction | 'And', 'But' |
| Fillers | 'Er', 'Urm' |
| Definite Article | The |
| Indefinite Article | A |
| Superlative Adjectives | 'Best', 'Most', 'Worst' |
| Preposition | 'On', 'Beneath', 'Under' |
| Sibilants | 'S', 'Z' |
| Subordinating Conjunction | 'Because', 'While', 'Until' |
| Acronym | 'NATO' (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) |
| Antonym | 'Big/Small' |
| Archaism | 'herein', 'hereby', 'jeepers', 'crumbs' |
| Assonance | 'It beats...as it sweeps... as it cleans' |
| Normal Verbs | 'to run', 'to walk', 'to eat', 'to fly', 'to go', 'to say', 'to touch', etc. |
| Abstract Verbs | 'to be', 'to want', 'to cos't, 'to seem', 'to need', 'to care', 'to contain', 'to owe', 'to exist' |
| Possession Verbs | 'To posess', 'to own', 'to belong' |
| Emotion Verbs | 'to like', 'to love', 'to hate', 'to dislike', 'to fear', 'to envy', 'to mind' |
| Regular Verbs | 'walked', 'talked' |
| Irregular Verb | 'Saw', Went' |
| Concrete Noun | 'sandpape'r, 'birch tree's, 'smog', 'cow', 'sailboat', rocking 'chair', and 'pancake' |
| Common Nouns | 'Car', 'Man', 'Bridge', 'Sand', 'Water' |
| Proper Nouns | 'Bob', 'Africa', 'The Tower of London', 'United Nations' |
| Verbal Nouns | 'I love swimming' |
| Compound Nouns | 'Mother-in-Law', 'Paper-Clip', 'Board of Members' |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | 'This', 'That', 'These', 'Those' |
| Indefinite Pronouns | 'All', 'some', 'any', 'several', 'anyone', 'nobody', 'each', 'both', few, 'either', 'none', 'one', 'no-one' |
| Interrogative Pronouns | 'Who', 'Which', 'That', 'Where', 'How' |
| Posessive Pronouns | 'Her', ' His', 'My', 'Mine', 'Your', 'Our', 'Their' |
| Relative Pronouns | 'Which', 'That', 'Who', 'Whose', 'Whom', 'Where' |
| Reflexive Pronouns | 'myself', 'yourself', 'herself', 'himself', 'itself', 'ourselves', 'yourselves', 'themselves' |
| Descriptive Adjectives | 'Tall', 'Worthwhile', 'Great', 'Amazing', 'Difficult' |
| Limiting Adjectives | 'Two', 'Every', 'This' |
| Predictate Adjectives | 'Interested', 'Fun', 'Nerve-Wracking', 'Careful', 'Similar', 'Scared' |
| Adverbs of Manner | 'beautifully', 'peacefully', 'Carefully', 'quietly' |
| Adverbs of Place | 'There', 'here', 'everywhere', 'anywhere', 'somewhere' |
| Adverbs of Time | 'Before', 'yet', 'still' |
| Adverbs of Frequency | 'Always', 'sometimes', 'often', 'never', 'always' |
| Adverbs of Degree | 'almost', 'nearly', 'quite', 'hardly', 'scarcely', 'barely', 'just' |
| Intensifying Adjective | 'High', 'Low', 'Very', 'Strong' |
| Intensitying Adverbs | 'Absolutely', 'Completely', 'terribly', Partly', 'Slightly', 'Badly', 'Deeply', 'Greatly', 'Fully', 'Entirely', 'quite', 'rather', 'barely','scarcely', 'hardly' |
| Demonstratives | 'This book (singular, near)', 'That book (singular, distant)', 'These books (plural, near)', 'Those books (plural, distant)' |
| Personal Pronouns | 'Me', 'You', 'it', 'her', 'I' |
| Reciprocal Pronouns | 'Each other', 'One another' |
| Attributive Adjective | 'Be', 'seem' |
| Superlative Adjective | 'Best', 'Most', 'Worst' |
| Disjunct | 'Fortunately' (expresses writer's attitude) |
| Adjunct | 'Nearly', 'Twice' - (the part of a sentence to show manner, time, place, frequency, degree') |
| Transitive Verbs | 'Pushed', 'Gave', 'Ate' |
| Intransitive Verbs | 'Broke', 'Sank', 'Washes' |
| Adjectival Noun | 'Young', 'Rich' |
| Resolutive Adjective | an adjective that is placed postpositively (after the noun it modifies) and reflects a change that occurs by action of the verb on the noun. Hence result +ative - 'rare', 'white', 'clean' |
| Zero Article | When a noun is used without 'the', 'an' or 'an' |
| Colligation | 'suprising', 'amazing', 'astonishing' - a form of collocayion where the lexical item is linked to a grammatical one e.g. suprising colligates with a negative |
| Subject Complement | 'He's a surveyor' |
| Object Complement | 'She sent him the fax' |
| Adjectival Complement | 'They'll be happy', 'They'll be happy to see us' |
| Prepositional Complement | 'They talked about what needed doing' |
| Direct Object | The direct object of a verb is created, affected or altered by the action of a verb, or appreciated or sensed by the subject of the verb. e.g. 'She closed the door'. |
| Indirect Object | The indirect object of a verb is not directly affected by the action, but can either receive the direct object or have the action done for them. e.g. 'She sent the letter to James', 'they made dinner for him' |
| Retained Object | A retained object is an object in a passive sentence that would also be the object in an active sentence: 'She was given the job by the previous manager', 'The previous manager gave her the job.' |
| Main Clause | 'If you tried it, you'd probably love it' |
| Interjections/Back-Channelling | 'I see', 'yes', 'uha', 'OK' |
| Discourse Marker | 'Anyway', 'So', 'Now' |
| Phatic Speech | 'Hello', 'How are you?', 'Nice day', 'you're welcome' |
| Anadiplosis | A rhetorical device where a word or phrase at the end of a sentence or phrase is repeated at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase. e.g. 'he won't accept failure. failure is not an option' |
| Antimetabole | A rhetorical device where a word or a phrase in one clause or phrase is repeated in the opposite order in the next clause or phrase: e.g. 'The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.' |
| Anaphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. e.g: 'early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise' |
| Chiasmus | inversion in the second of two parallel phrases |
| Hyperbole | 'Crime of the century' |
| Litotes | 'She is not the friendliest person I know' |
| Metaphors | 'The heart of the matter' |
| Similie | 'like', 'as', 'as brave as a lion' |
| Oxymoron | 'Bitter-sweet', 'living death', 'educated guess', 'plastic flowers', 'real nightmare' |
| Amelioration | 'Considerate', 'Nice' |
| Syndetic Listing | 'The lion, the witch and the wardrobe' |
| Asyndetic Listing | 'Apples, pears, bananas' |
| Anaphoric Reference | 'The president had set for himself the task', 'The bill which daniel said he drafted personally' |
| Aspirants | sounds which denote audiable breath e.g. 'H' |
| Cataphoric Reference | 'Too scared to buy before they sell, some home owners aim for a trade' |
| Coinage | 'Blog', 'Colonies' |
| Mono-syllabic words | 'One', 'None', 'Two', 'Dog' |
| Poly-syllabic words | Polysyllabic |
| pre-modifier | 'beautiful' in 'beautiful rose' |
| post-modifier | 'I'd like to speak to all the people involved' (involved modifies people' |
| Hypernym | 'Furniture' |
| Hyponym | 'Table', 'Chair', 'Desk', 'Cupboard' |
| Declarative Sentences/Mood | 'You left the light on', 'Don't know where he is, probably missed his train', 'I never met him' |
| Interrogative Sentences/Mood | 'When was the last time we met?', 'Do you want tea or coffee?', 'Do you think I'm made of money?', 'I suppose you'd like something to eat', 'I'd like to know the train times for Sunday', 'You did what?!' |
| Imperative Mood/Sentences | 'Mind the step', 'switch the appliance off and remove the plug from the socket', 'Don't just stand there', 'See chapter 2', 'Come over for dinner', 'Do be careful', 'don't mention it', 'You stay here', 'Don't tell me what to do', 'Come over here please', 'Don't tell me what to do' |
| Subjunctive/exclamatory Sentences/Mood | 'I demand this door to be open', 'They sugested she wait a little longer', '...as if he were dreaming', 'Long live the President' |
| Idioms | 'sneer at', 'ease off', 'urge on', 'under control' |
| Jargon | 'Englightenment', 'Utilitarianism', 'Kantian' |
| Juxtaposition | 'Chaos/Calm', 'Black/White' |
| Neologism | 'hinky', 'boucebackability' |
| Passive Voice | (subject and object change places in order to alter the focus of the sentece) - 'the bone was eaten by the dog' |
| Pathetic Fallacy | (Attributing human feelings to innanimate objects) - 'The friendly sun' |
| Personification | 'The trees danced in the wind' |
| Prefix | 'Re...', 'Un...' |
| Dynamic Verbs | 'Walking', 'Eating', 'Shouting' (where an action is involved) |
| Stative Verbs | 'Decide', 'Love', 'Calculate', 'is', 'am' (non-physical) |
| Tag Question | 'It's a nice day, isn't it?', 'you'll hold the door open, won't you?' |
| Anthithesis | (opposite) - 'Hot/Cold', 'Black/white' |
| Hypophora | 'What makes the King a slave? courage.', 'What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously.' |
| Incrementum | Increase in the importance of a sentence |
| Trippling | 'Crisis, uncertainty, fear' |
| Parenthesis | either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material - interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence |
| Ambuguity | 'bank', 'I bought herbs from the apothecary', 'ice cream/I scream' - multiple meanings e.g. 'useful', 'functional', 'exemplary', 'pleasing' |
| Instrumental Power | social power that is manifested through formal mechanisms and structures. E.g. a government campaign |
| Influential Power | A subtle form of power caused by the influence of individuals upon one another in society. enforced by our judgements towards one another, or through subtle media influence such as the suggestive power of advertising. |
| Legalease | The language of law; the more traditional style of speech used in legal situations such as contracts, court cases and solicitor's agreements. |
| Liason | 'Kick-koff' instead of 'Kick-off' |
| Neologism | 'Facebook me' |
| Proxemics | How communication between two people is affected by distance. TERRITORY. Public, Social, Personal, Intimate |
| Fronted | When something is at the front of a sentence e.g. fronted verb/fronted conjunction etc. |
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