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Frage | Antworten |
emotive language | language used to gain an intended emotion from the audience. |
rule of three | a list of three things, put together to create emphasis, for example: big, bold and brilliant. |
anecdote | a short interesting or funny story about an incident or person in real life. |
disguised directive | telling someone to do something without directly telling them to do it. |
imperative | bossy verb |
hyperbole | over the top exaggeration. |
paradox | opposite of irony. |
irony | drawing a tree on a piece of paper. |
religious reference | referring to religion |
received pronunciation | the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England, widely accepted as a standard elsewhere. |
para-linguistics | body language |
aporia | figure of speech where you show you are in doubt |
balancing statement | you start with one point and end with the opposing. it may not be a good idea but I bet it will be fun. |
taboo | words you shouldn't say in a certain situation. eg, the elephant in the room you do not address. |
divergence | moving your language away from someone else, eg strengthening your accent to appear more different to who you are talking to. |
convergence | softening an accent to appear more friendly and converge with the person you are talking to. |
questions | questions |
tag questions | 'this colour suits me, don't you think?' |
overlapping | an interruption causes the speakers to talk over one another. |
interruptions | someone else starts talking when the current speaker isn't finished. |
emphasis | strengthening your accent of a certain word, 'you WILL do your homework' |
status words | words of a higher nature. |
initiation response feedback | feedback to a question or statement |
jargon | specialist lexis, a doctor using words such as stethoscope. |
specialist lexis | word topic |
instrumental power | Instrumental power is explicit power of the sort imposed by the state, eg the police |
pronouns | word that makes a noun better |
pathos | a quality that evokes pitty or sadness. |
logos | the word of god |
ethos | the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations. |
parallelism | the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way. |
boosters | words that boost the conversation, eg anyway |
metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |
accent | how you pronounce your words geographically depedning |
mitigation | the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something. |
complex sentences | a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. |
passive resistance | non-violent opposition to authority, especially a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements. |
volume and pitch | how high or loud you make your voice. |
rhetoric | effective or persuasive speaking or writing. |
rhetorical question | a question youre not expected to answer. |
setting the agenda | deciding and stating what you're going to talk about. |
holding the term | keeping the subject topic. |
colloquialisms | A colloquialism is a word, phrase or other form used in informal language. |
register | the formality or tone of the writing or speech |
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