English Language Terminology

English Language Terminology

1. Moods and Modal Verbs

   • Moods
     • Imperative = Command Declarative = Statement Interrogative = Question Exclamatory = Exclamtion
   • Modal Verbs
     • Can/Could May/Might Must/Shall

2. Adverbials

   • Time
   • Place
   • Manner
   • Frequency
   • Degree

3. Comarative = Er

   • Superlative = Est

4. Dynamic and Stative Verbs

   • Dynamic
     • Action = Kick, Hit
   • Stative
     • Describes feeling/emotion

5. Grices Maxims

   • Quanitity - As informative as possible, only info thats needed
   • Quality - Truthful, no false info
   • Relation - Relevant to the subject
   • Manner - Clear and brief

6. References

   • Cataphoric Reference
     • Refers to another unit that is introduced later on in the text
   • Anaphoric Reference
     • Refers to another unit that was introduced earlier on in the text

7. Colloquilalism - Informal language usage e.g bloke, fella, lass

8. Personification - Giving an inanimate object human characteristics

9. Hypophora - Question that gets answered straight away

10. Nouns

    • Common/Concrete - Everyday Objects
    • Proper Noun - Name of a person, place
    • Collective Noun - Refers to a group of people. animals or things
    • Abstract Noun - Describe things that have no physical qualities

11. Conjunctions

    • Co-ordinating Conjunction - Word that joins elements of equal ranks
      • And, Or, But
    • Surbordinating Conjunction - used to introduce a surbordinate clause
      • Because, While, Until

12. Hyperbole - Exageration used to heighten feeling and intensity

13. Listing

    • Syndetic Listing - Using conjunctions to join clauses
    • Asyndetic Listing - The omission of co-ordinating conjunctions as a feature of rhetorical style

14. Intertextuality - Relationship between texts

15. Semantic Field - Lexical set of semantically related items

16. Narrative Mode

    • 1st Person - I, We
    • 2nd Person - You
    • 3rd Person - He, She, It, They

17. Anaphora - repetition of a word or phrase repeated at the beggining of a clause

18. C - Context A - Audience P - Purpose

19. Semantics - The study of the meaning of words

20. Auxhillary Verbs - To be, To have, To do

21. Superlatives - Word that emphasized the extremes e.g Best, Worst

22. Premodification - descriptive words come before the thing being described

    • Postmodification - descriptive words come after the thing being described

23. Comparative - adjective that relates one thing usually ends in "er" Bigger, Smaller, Further

24. Pathetic Fallacy - When the enviroment or weather mirrors emotions

25. Taboo Language Words that a avoided because considered offensive (Swear words)

26. Parallelism - When phrases or sentences have a similar pattern or structure

27. Jargon - Specialist vocab associated with a particular occupation or activity

28. Collocations - Words that through usage just naturally go together (fish and chips, salt and vinegar

29. Tenor - The tone or relationship between author and reader and how it is created

30. Ambiguity - Can be one or more possible meanings or outcomes in a story, creating a sense of intrigue