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42 Cards in this Set
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Acronyms
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Words made up from the initial letters of words they represent
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Allographs
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A variant of type
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Amelioration
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Semantic change in an upward manner
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Anacoluthon
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A speech construction which fails to finish or goes wrong
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Anaphoric
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Referencing back
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Antithesis
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Parallel structure to highlight contrasting ideas
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Antonyms/synonyms
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Words of opposite/similar meanings
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Archaisms
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Old English terms
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Block language
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Ungrammatical language shortened for dramatic effect
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Cataphoric
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Referencing forward
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Clipping
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Shortened words
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Cohesion
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A measure of how well a text fits together as a whole
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Collocation
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Phrases and words you expect to be linked
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Deixis
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Orientation words that locate precisely what's being talked about
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Discollocation
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Opposite of collocation
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Dysphemism
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A harsh 'to the point' term
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Ellision
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Missing out sounds in a word
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Ellipsis
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Missing out of a word
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Euphemism
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Politer nicer way of saying something
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Embedding
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The clause within a sentence where one piece of information is embedded in another
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Hedges
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Words or phrases used to indicate a degree of uncertainty or tentativeness
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Idioms
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Phrases where the meaning isn't actually truthful
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Jargon
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Specialist language
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Malapropism
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The misuse of words that sound similar
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Minimal responses
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Short utterances in response
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Mode
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Medium of communication
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Morpheme
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Smallest unit of grammatical meaning
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Negation
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Process of using lexical elements to form negative structures ie not no never
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Neologisms
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New words introduced to the language ie twerking
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Oxymoron
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Two words of opposite meaning placed together for effect
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Para linguistic features
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Gestures and facial expressions
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Parallelism
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Repetition or pattern in phrases or structure
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Patataxis
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A list where nouns or clauses can be linked without conjunctionsq
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Pejoration
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Semantic change in a downward manor
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Photic speech
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Small talk
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Post modifixation
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After head noun
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Pre modification
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Adjective before head noun
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Prosodic features
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Tone, pitch, volume
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Quantifiers
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Words which express quantity
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Register
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A variety of language appropriate to a particular purpose and context.
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Semantic fields sit
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Lexical items related to a certain theme or topic
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Tautology
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Unnecessary repetition
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