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- CONCESSION
- although,however,but,neverless
- existential sentence
- Existential clauses are clauses that indicate only an existence eg. THERE are boys in the yard.. there is the dummy subject
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
- not taken literally
- active voice
- subject comes first eg. the boy made a plan
- COMMENT
- predicate
- passive voice
- oblect comes fist eg. a plan was made by the boy
- DENOTATION
- dictionary meaning
- Cleft sentences
- are used to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say by introducing it or building up to it with a kind of relative clause.
- end focus
- most important info at end of sentence
- coordinant
- any conjunction except and but or
- Animation
- human to non living eg to grow a bussiness
- TEMPORAL
- time eg. first,then,at the same time,after,throughout
- indirect speech
- no talking marks aka reported
- cause and effect
- as a result,since,because.. thing that makes something else happen as a result of it
- homonym
- words spelt same having different meaning eg ran away, ran the shop
- extra position
- Extrapostion is the process or result of moving an element from its normal place to a place at the end or near to the end of a sentence.
- irony
- saying opposite of what you mean eg. sarcasm
- puns lead to what
- ambiguity
- Paradox
- goes against popular belief eg. a violent teacher
- subordinant
- and but or
- parellelism
- alongside he IS a boy and IS a person and IS aginsts it because he IS a catholic
- inversion
- can read more than 1 way
- hyperbole/exaggeration/overstatement
- he laughed until he split his sides
- puns
- playing with homophones
- fronting
- most important info at start of sentence
- direct speech
- " "
- CONNOTATION
- own feelings that go along with a word
- addition
- adding onto eg and, moreover,or etc.
- nominalisation
- takes the feeling out of it- makes it formal
- listing
- eg. shopping list
- Understatement
- just a little cut- head cut off
- foregrounding
- giving unusual prominence to one element or property of a text, relative to other less noticeable aspects. drws attention to itself-suprising
- agentless passive
- a plan was made
- LITERAL LANGUAGE
- actual
- COMPARISON
- differences
- homophone
- words spelt the smae having different menaings eg bore-boar
- Anethesis
- they promised freedom and provided slavery- opposite, create a balance
- TOPIC
- sunject
- CONTRAST
- similarities