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Lexical Semantics

Puns
1. A bad joke
2. eg. Broken puppet for sale, no strings attatched,
Idioms
1. Well known phrases.
2. eg. Put to sleep
Euphemism
1. Making something out to be less rude then it is.
2. Little Ladies room
Metaphors
1. When a word is applied to another word
2. eg. Life is a roller coaster.
Similies
1. When something is compared to something
2. eg. The car was as shiny as the sea.
Rhetorical Questions
1. Questions which are asked where no answer is needed
2. eg. "What do you think?
Synonyms
Taboo Lexis
Neologism
1. Recently made words only just coming into use..
2. e.g. YOLO
Hyperbole
1. Any form of unlikely exaggeration
2. eg. Most Beautiful
Unusual Collocation
1. Words that would not usually go together
2. eg. Bitter Sweet.
Field Specific Lexis
1. Words which are only found with a certain topic
2. eg. Teams and Sports
Collocation
1. Words which are usually found together.
2. eg. Ice cold
Lexical Field
1. A theme which goes throughout a text.
2. eg. War
Dysphemism
1. Making something out to be worse then it is.
2. eg. Sleeping with the fishes
Ambiguity
1. Things with more than one meaning
2. A passerby helped dog bite victim
Connotation
1. Words which link to other words
2. eg. Cats, Dogs, Fish all connotate to Animals,

Lexical Semantics

	Created by thornamelia about 10 years ago