Zusammenfassung der Ressource
English Lit and Lang terminology
- NOUNS
- Common Noun- a naming word
for a thing that is tangible
- book, chair,
man, penguin,
murderer etc...
- Abstract noun- a naming word
for an idea, concept or belief
- love, tidiness,
politics etc
- Proper noun- a naming word for a
specific example of a COMMON noun
- Eiffel Tower,
Christina,
Burnely
- VERBS
- Dynamic verb- a word that
represents a physical action
- jump, run, kill,
stop, kiss etc
- Stative verb- a word that represents
a process that happens mentaly
- think, loves,
believe, to fear
- AUXILIARY verb- a verb that has to be
used with another verb, in order to
create present or future tense
- DID you go? I
AM going
- Modal verb- an auxiliary verb that
shows a degree of posibility
- might , could,
must may
should
- PRONOUNS
- First person pronoun - "I"
- First person PLURAL- WE, OUR, US
- Second person pronoun- "you"
- Third person pronoun- him, her, he, she, it.
- Third person PLURAL- THEM, THOSE
- *POSSESSIVE pronoun (1st, 2nd, 3rd)- my,
mine, hers, his, ours, yours, and theirs
- *DEMONSTRATIVE pronoun- this, that, those
- SENTENCE MOOD/TYPE
- IIMPERATIVE sentence mood/type-
when a sentence uses a command.
- DECLARATIVE sentence mood/type- when a
sentence is making a statement.
- EXCLAMATORY sentence mood/type- when a
sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion,
sense of alarm or overly strong emphasis.
- ADJECTIVE - a describing word
- SUPERLATIVE - an adjective that displays the most
extreme value of its quality ually end in 'est'
- most, biggest,
smallest, worst,
furthest, quietest.
- COMPARATIVE- an adjective that relates one thing in
some way to another usually end in 'er'
- bigger,
smaller,further,farther
etc
- ADVERB- a describing word that modifies all types of words
- time adverbials
- DEFINITE article "the"
- INDEFINITE article- "a" or "an"
- MONOSYLLABIC Lexis- words of one syllable
- POLYSYLLABIC Lexis- words of two+ syllables
- REGISTER - the level of formality of a text
- TENOR- the tone, or the relationship between author and
reader, and how its created
- COLLOQUIALISM- informal language usage
- EXCLAMATION- one word with an exclamation
mark (!)
- ELLIPSIS- (...) significant pause
- SYNTAX- the way words form sentences ( the
ordering of them to create meaning
- PARENTHESIS- an aside within a text by sectioning
off extra info between brackets dashes or between
commas
- HYPOPHORIA- when a rhetorical question is immediately
followed by an answer in a text
- is this the
best film? you
bet it is!
- LITOTES- Deliberately
understatement of things or effects
- PARALLELISM/PATTERNING- the creations of patterns in a text through a repetition of words or
phrases(phonological parallelism) or by balancing meanings (semantic parallelism) for a deliberate
effect
- TRICOLON/TRIPLING- a repetition in groups of threes (adds sense of momentum)
- PRE-MODIFICATION - When a descriptive word
comes before the thing they are desccribing
- POST-MODIFICATION- when the descriptive word
comes after the thing they are describing
- SYNECHDOCHE- a figure of speech that is made to
represent the whole vice versa
- a new set of
wheel or behind
bars
- EXTENDED METAPHOR- when a metaphor continues
throughout a text, with continuous reference to compared item.
- HOMEIC/EPIC SIMILE- a
Metaphor that is also treated a
s simile
- ALLUSION- refering to something metaphoriclally
- FIELD SPECIFIC LEXIS- a LANGUAGE OF A CERTAIN AREA
FSL for computer = mouse, monitor, gigabyte etc
- SEMANTICS- the meaning of words
- SYNONYM- an alternative word choice.
- synonym for
horror= fright
- HOMOPHONE- WORDS THAT SOUND EXACTLY THE
SAME NEW KNEW NO KNOW
- NEW KNEW, NO
KNOW, THEIR THEIR
THEY'RE
- HOMONYM- WORD WITH VARIOUS MEANINGS COOL , GREAT, HEAVY
- COLLOCATIONS - words that
naturally go together (fish&chips)
- PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES -any feauture that relates to sound
REPETITION/ ALLITERATION/CONSONACE
- EXPOSITION- writer gets across info about the
situation of the charecter
- PROTAGONIST - MIN CHARACTER THE READER IS
MEANT TO IDENTIFY WITH THE MOST
- ANTAGONIST- THE ONE THAT OPPOSES THE PROTAGONIST
- ANTHROPOMORPHISM- ANIMAL TAKES ROLE OF A HUMAN
BEING (WEARING CLOTHES SPEAKING A LANGUAGE ETC
- NEOLOGISM- A NEWLY INVENTED WORD
- EUPHEMISM- THE POLITE WAY OF
SAYING SOMETHING INAPPROPREIATE
- DYSPHEMISM- extreme way of saying something