English Terminology

English Terminology

1. Adjacency pair

   • Utterance by one speaker followed by a reply from another, making an 'adjacent pair'.

2. Agenda setting

   • 'setting' or choice of topic for a conversation or interaction.

3. Antithesis

   • Opposing ideas or images are used for effect

4. Bathos

   • Change in mood; usually from serious to trivial

5. Blank verse

   • Unrhymed verse that follows regular metrical pattern - usually 10 syllables to a line - alternate stressed and unstressed syllables.

6. Declarative clause

   • Statement that forms section of a sentence

7. Deixis

   • Use of expressions without naming them because of shared knowledge.

8. Demotic

   • Everyday language

9. Diatribe

   • Condemnatory written or spoken attack