Stylistic Analysis Vocab

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abnormal paradigm

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form of deviation that uses words in a different usage to create meaning

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anaphoric pronoun

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refers to something mentioned prior

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apposition

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providing more explanation to a name e.g. Janet, girlfriend of Luis

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assonance

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repetition in words based on vowel sounds

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coherence

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property of the mind in relation to the text, world is in order

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cohesion

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a property of a text that holds the text together, lexical conjugation acts as a logical glue to conjugative relationships, such as causality or temporality

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conditions of felicity

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determining whether or not a speech act has been successful or not

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defamiliarization

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varying from the norm in order to invoke meaning

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deixis

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how do you call/refer to people? Can include personal, locative, temporal

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deviation

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psychological foregrounding, rearrangement of schemata

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dialogic

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aka multilogic, multiple voices perform to create feelings to create an effect in audience

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direct speech

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inverted commas, accurately represents the propositional content and words

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direct speech act

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speech act that has more clarity, but threatens the negative face

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enjambment

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run on lines in poetry that run a concept from one line to another

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exophoric pronoun

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refers to something mentioned directly

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external evaluation

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evaluating the situation from the outside perspective

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eye rhyme

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no phonetic rhyme exists, but there is a phonetic rhyme involving more than one letter in sequence

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factivity

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truth status of a clause

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foregrounding

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psychological feeling caused by deviation making a poem prominent

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frame

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expectation of events

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full alliteration

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repetition of identical sounds

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horizontal axis of value

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value comes from comparison to other words, associations

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hypotactical construction

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hierarchy of importance

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iamb

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X / di dum pattern of rhythm

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ictus

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resembled as / as strong position in meter

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ideational function

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conveyance or transmission of information using transitivity structures, such as who, what, when, and why

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ideological viewpoint

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world-view

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illocutionary

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making clear a specific purpose of speech act by using conventions

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imagery

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descriptive words that create mental images in the minds of the reader

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indirect speech

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accurately represents the content of the conversation

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indirect speech act

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a speech act that saves face, advantage of not being seen as imposing

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internal rhymes

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occur at a location other than the end of the line

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interpersonal function

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position of self towards protagonist by naming of people and pronoun selection

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inversion

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switching the expected order of noun and verb structure

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irony

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juxtaposition of 2 opposites

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literary form features

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subordinate, sparse, abstract, decontextualized, academic, grammar, rereadability

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locutionary force

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sense of force used in a speech act Lat. speak

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loose alliteration

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repetition of similar sounds

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metaphor

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direct comparision that maps info or knowledge onto one domain from another

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meter

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extra layer of rhythmic structuring

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metonomy

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comparison within the same frame

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monologic

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only one voice speaking to create a theme e.g. poem

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morphemes

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phrases that consist of words, used in neologism e.g. bookshelf, unbound

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negative face

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desire that actions should not be impeded by others

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neologism

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creation of new words using familiar word rules

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nominalization

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use of heavy names to provide names

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normal paradigm

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normal expectations for word usage

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onomatopoeia

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where the sound is included in the word

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oral frame features

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additive, redundant, situational, engages the listener, colloquial vocabulary, 1st person, stated lesson

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overlexicalization

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excessive amount of words used

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paradigmatic axis of selection

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choosing words to fit into a slot

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parallelism

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balance or comparison of words that evokes meaning in the text by putting ideas together to reflect meaning by similarities or differences

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paratactic construction

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no hierarchy of importance e.g. and . . . And . . . And. . .

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perlocutionary effect

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real effect upon the listener, succesful speech act is one that matches the perlocutionary effect with locutionary force

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persona

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speaker

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poetic orthography

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special diacritic marks or spellings in poetry that results from the tension between meter and grammar

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point of view

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who is narrating the story - level and when it happens

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positive face

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want self to be desirable to others

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prototype theory

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ideal example

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reader's theater

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reading a text with multiple voices to add additional meaning

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remiss

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resembled as X as weak position in meter

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repetition

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overuse of the same or similar word or word structure

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schema

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frames that create expectations and allow understanding, clusters of typical features used to anticipate events, organized by typicality, compare and re-enforce experiences

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schemata

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active organization of experience, larger concept or grid of mental structures and expectations

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script

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sequence of events that allow anticipation

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signification

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words have meaning

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simile

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comparison using like or as

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sound symbolism

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sounds created by the words represent a symbol within the poem

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source

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elements are taken from the source to map onto the target

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speech acts

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who says what to whom, includes tasks of doing something with words

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subordinate clause

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does not contain the main verb, embedded and typical of written language

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syntagmatic axis of combination

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combining words to fit paradigms ruled by grammar and word order

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syntagmatic meaning

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actual definition found in the dictionary

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target

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the thing that is trying to be understood in a new way in a metaphor

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textual function

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cohesion and coherence

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topic

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point of discussion, involves the relationship of speakers as a power game, includes topic initiation, recycling, drop, nomination, management, and avoidance

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transitivity structures

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verb tenses that show who is doing what

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transposition

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re-organization of lines of the poem used as a tool to gain extra meaning

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trochee

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/ X dum di pattern

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turn allocation

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designating next turn at talk, can also be through body language , allows yielding and taking of the floor

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turn taking

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orderly and organization of turns of speech

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underlexicalization

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less words that necessary, lack of technicality

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unidirectional

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one object is understood in concepts of another

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value laden vocabulary

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words that have different meaning for different groups of people

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vertical axis of meaning

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signifier, what a word means