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Flashcards by Megan Bailey , updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Megan Bailey
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| emotive language | language used to gain an intended emotion from the audience. |
| rule of three | a list of three things, put together to create emphasis, for example: big, bold and brilliant. |
| anecdote | a short interesting or funny story about an incident or person in real life. |
| disguised directive | telling someone to do something without directly telling them to do it. |
| imperative | bossy verb |
| hyperbole | over the top exaggeration. |
| paradox | opposite of irony. |
| irony | drawing a tree on a piece of paper. |
| religious reference | referring to religion |
| received pronunciation | the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England, widely accepted as a standard elsewhere. |
| para-linguistics | body language |
| aporia | figure of speech where you show you are in doubt |
| balancing statement | you start with one point and end with the opposing. it may not be a good idea but I bet it will be fun. |
| taboo | words you shouldn't say in a certain situation. eg, the elephant in the room you do not address. |
| divergence | moving your language away from someone else, eg strengthening your accent to appear more different to who you are talking to. |
| convergence | softening an accent to appear more friendly and converge with the person you are talking to. |
| questions | questions |
| tag questions | 'this colour suits me, don't you think?' |
| overlapping | an interruption causes the speakers to talk over one another. |
| interruptions | someone else starts talking when the current speaker isn't finished. |
| emphasis | strengthening your accent of a certain word, 'you WILL do your homework' |
| status words | words of a higher nature. |
| initiation response feedback | feedback to a question or statement |
| jargon | specialist lexis, a doctor using words such as stethoscope. |
| specialist lexis | word topic |
| instrumental power | Instrumental power is explicit power of the sort imposed by the state, eg the police |
| pronouns | word that makes a noun better |
| pathos | a quality that evokes pitty or sadness. |
| logos | the word of god |
| ethos | the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations. |
| parallelism | the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way. |
| boosters | words that boost the conversation, eg anyway |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |
| accent | how you pronounce your words geographically depedning |
| mitigation | the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something. |
| complex sentences | a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. |
| passive resistance | non-violent opposition to authority, especially a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements. |
| volume and pitch | how high or loud you make your voice. |
| rhetoric | effective or persuasive speaking or writing. |
| rhetorical question | a question youre not expected to answer. |
| setting the agenda | deciding and stating what you're going to talk about. |
| holding the term | keeping the subject topic. |
| colloquialisms | A colloquialism is a word, phrase or other form used in informal language. |
| register | the formality or tone of the writing or speech |
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