English Literature and Language AS: Key Words

Adjacency Pairs

Agenda Setting

Alliteration

Ambiguity

Analogy

Antithesis

Antonym

Bathos

Blank Verse

Cadence

Caesurae

Collocation

Colloquial

Complex

Compound

Connotative

Context Dependent

Context of Production

Declarative Clause

Deixis

Demotic

Denotative

Diatribe

Discourse Marker

Dramatic Irony

Dynamic Verb

Elegy

Elision

Ellipsis

Enjambement

Etymology

Evaluative

Exclamative

Expressive

Figurative Language

Foregrounding

Free Verse

Graphology

Haiku

Hyperbole

Iambic

Idiom

Imagery

Imperative

Intonation

Irony

Juxtaposition

Linear Narrative

Metre

Minor Sentence

Monosyllabic Lexis

Motif

Narrative

Narrative Sequence

Omniscient Narrator

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Paralinguistic Feature

Parallelism

Pastiche

Pentameter

Personification

Phatic talk

Polysyllabic Lexis

Premodifier

Register

Repairs and Reformulations

Revenge Tragedy

Rhetorical Question

Rhythm

Satirical

Schema

Semantics

Simple

Sonnet

Stanza

Stress

Stressed Syllable

Style

Subordinate Clause

Syllable

Synonym

Syntax

Tag Question

Transactional Talk

Typography

Unstressed Syllable