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• Litotes


  An ironic understatement
• Anadiplosis


  The repetition of the last word of a sentence at the beginning of the next
• Bathos


  The effect of an anticlimax created by an intentional lapse in mood
• Parataxis


  The placing of clauses or phrases one after another without words to indicate coordination or subordination
• Dynamic verb


  A verb which has a start and end point
• Stative verb


  A verb which has no clear start and end
• Main verb


  The active part of the sentence
• Infinitive verb


  to + verb, requires conjugation
• Anastrophe


  The reversal of word order
• Interrogative pronouns


  • Who

  • Whose

  • Which

  • What
• Reflective pronouns


  Indicate that the object of a verb is the same as the subject (e.g. herself, himself, themself)
• Voice


  A mixture of vocabulary, tone, point of view and syntax
• Syntax


  Sentence construction
• Indefinite pronoun


  Not specific about the person, object or place they refer to (e.g. somebody, anybody, anyone)
• Context of reception


  The factors affecting how the text is received
• Context of production


  The factors affecting the creation of a text
• Concrete noun


  A material object
• Proper noun


  A particular person, place, organisation, or thing
• Abstract noun


  An idea, quality, or state
• Stylistic variation


  When language is altered to characterise or emphasise a point
• Audience


  The intended viewer of a text
• Register


  The scale of formality in a text
• Purpose


  The reason the text exists
• Lexis


  The choice of words
• Genre


  The form of the text (e.g. article, diary, letter)
• Incrementum


  The build up in a speech to emphasise a point
• Mode


  The medium of communication (speech or writing)
• Personification


  Giving human traits to something non-human
• Zoomorphism


  Giving animal traits to something non-animal
• Antimetabole


  The reversal of word order, referring to previously in a sentence
• Deixis


  The use of vague words when referring to a specific time, place or person within the context of the piece
• Prepositions


  Words which describe the relationship between things in a sentence
• Adverbs


  Provide more information about verbs (e.g. -ly words)
• Adverbial phrase


  A phrase which provides more information about an action, like where or when it took place
• Modal-auxiliary verb


  A word which suggests how likely something is to happen, or to the extent which it happens
• What are the two kinds of modal-auxiliary verbs?

  Deontic - certainty

  Epistemic - possibility
• Determiners

  Determiners come before a noun and refer specifically to it (e.g. a, an, the, many)
• Hendiadys

  Using two adjectives together to create a more dramatic effect
• Ecphonesis


  The use of an exclamatory phrase
• Aposiopesis


  Sudden breaking off in speech, showing an unwillingness or inability to continue