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28 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Exclamation Mark
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Used at the end of sentences to inject strong feeling
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Appendix
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Where extra information is found
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Target Audience
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Information aimed at the public
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Slang
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Informal language not used in ordinary conversations
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Minor sentence
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A sentence not containing a verb
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Imperative
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Command word
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Colloquial
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Informal language used in everyday conversation
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Alitteration
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Repetition of leading vowel sounds in a phrase
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Pun
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Multiple meanings for the same word
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Personal Pronouns
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When the author tries to include the reader
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Suffix
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A letter (or letters) placed at the end of a word to change its meaning
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Tone
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Expressing the authors opinion
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Adverbs
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Words that tell us where when and how in an action scene
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What is a cliche?
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An overused colloquial statement which has lost its original value
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What is a colloquialism?
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highly informal language used in ordinary conversation
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What is emotive language?
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Words which convey the author's feeling or attitude toward the text.
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What is an euphemism?
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A kinder, less direct way of addressing something
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What is figurative language?
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Words which describe or compare one thing to another
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What is a hyperbole?
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An exaggeration
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What is Jargon?
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Specialized technical language used by people who work together
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What is a metaphor?
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To compare two things to each other or to further describe something in contrast to another
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What is an onomatopoeia?
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The verbal phonetics of a word
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What is an oxymoron?
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A contradictory phrase
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What is a personification?
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To give human like qualities to a non animate object
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What is a synonym?
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Similar meanings in different words
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What is a rhetorical question?
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A question which does not require an answer but is rather there to inspire thought or opinions
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What is a simile?
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A comparison of two things
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What is a stereotype?
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A profiled, irrational, prejudiced way of viewing someone or something
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