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ELL Glossary - Green
A-Level English Lang & Lit Glossary -
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adjective | A word that describes a noun, e.g. beautiful |
| Adverb | A word that describes a verb, e.g. silently |
| Alliteration | Where words close to one another begin with the same initial consonantal sound, and (usually) the same letter, e.g. round and round the rugged rocks. |
| Anthropomorphic | Attributing to animals human thoughts, characteristics or feelings. |
| Archaic | A word or phrase no longer in current use. |
| Assonance | Where words close to one another share a similar vowel sound. |
| Audience | The group of people at whom a text is directed or intended for. |
| Accent | A set of distnctive pronunciations that mark regional or social identity. |
| Attitudes | The opinions expressed in the text. |
| Capitalisation | The use of upper case letters throughout. Generally creates excessive emphasis. |
| Content | What the text is about. |
| Context | Things outside the text which may shape its meaning e.g. when it was written, and who wrote it. |
| Colloquialism | A word characteristic of ordinary, familiar speech. |
| Conjunctions | Words that link together two clauses in a sentence, e.g. 'and', 'but', 'or' |
| Connotation | The associations called up by a particular word or sign that exist beyond its literal meaning, e.g. the word 'rose' connotes love and romance. |
| Declarative | A sentence that asserts something. |
| Definite article | 'the' |
| Denotation | The literal meaning of a word or sign, e.g. the word 'rose' denotes a type of flower. |
| Discourse marker | A word which generally does not affect the meaning of a sentence, but acts as something of a 'placeholder' to structure the text, e.g. however, firstly, right. |
| Dramatic irony | In a play, the situation where teh audience have knowledge that is not shared by all the characters on stage. Hence characters may do or say things that create unwittling humour, irony or tension. |
| Dialogue | Language interation with two or more participants |
| Ellipsis | The ommision of a word or words; sometimes indicated by '...' |
| Emotive | Words designed to stir the emotions |
| Exclamatory | A sentence with the force of an exclamation. |
| Filler | A word or phrase used to fill gaps in conversation or to give time for thinking, e.g. 'you know', 'like' |
| Hyperbole | A rhetorical term describing 'over the top' expression; extreme exaggeration for comic or emotive effect. |
| Idiolect | The style of speech or writing individual to a particular person. |
| Imperative | A sentence which instructs/commands someone to do something. |
| Indefinite article | 'a' or 'an' |
| Interrogative | A sentence which questions something. |
| Irony | Saying one thing while meaning another, often its exact opposite, generally for satirical effect. |
| Italicisation | Script or font which is slanted to the right, generally used for emphasis. |
| Lexis | Vocabulary, word-choice. |
| Metaphor | A description which does not compare one thing with another but actually becomes the other, e.g. 'she was the wind' |
| Onomatopoeia | A word's sound is imitative of its meaning, e.g. bang, smash, pop |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech which combines two different and contrasting ideas, e.g. 'dark fire' |
| Slang | Phrases or expressions used by a particular group or class, gneerally informal and sometimes seen as inappropriate. |
| Paralinguistic features | Non-verbal communication using gestures, posture and facial expressions. |
| Pathetic Fallacy | When the environment (weather) mirrors emotions. |
| Personification | A device in which the non-human is given personal and human qualities, e.g. 'the trees danced in the wind' |
| Pronoun | A word that replaces a noun. |
| Received pronunciation | An English accent which has a high social status and is not connected to a specific region. |
| Repair | The correction of a mistake or misunderstanding in conversation. |
| Repetition | Saying the same thing more than once. |
| Sibilance | Consonant sounds articulated with a hissing sound (s,z), e.g. the small snake dozed. |
| Simile | A device which directly compares two things using like or as, e.g. 'she ran like the wind' |
| Superlative | The final form of comparison than which there is non more extreme, e.g. best, worst, most |
| Tag Question | An interrogative structure attached to teh end of a sentence which expects a reply, e.g. isn't it. |
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