Language levels and techniques

• Discourse: Endophoric and cataphoric reference
• Discourse: Verbal and clausal ellipsis
• Discourse: collocations
• Genre: collective nouns
• Terminology: deixis (context) tenor (level of formality due to context)
• lexis: informal - slang, colloquialism’s, cliches and monosyllabic
• lexis: formal - elevated, archaic and polysyllabic
• Hyperbole:

  exaggeration
• Metaphoric language
• Oxymoron:

  e.g bitter sweet
• Simile language
• Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
• Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object.
• Compound words
• blend words
• Euphemisms and dysphemisms
• Grammar: nouns - pre modified and post modified, concrete and abstract
• Grammar: adjectives - comparative and superlative
• grammar: verbs - stative and dynamic, primary auxiliary and modal auxiliary
• Pronouns, 1st,2nd,3rd
• Sentence functions: simple, compound and complex
• Sentence types: interrogative, declarative and exclamative
• Phonology: prosodic features - pitch, tone and intonation
• Phonology: alliteration, rhyme, assonance, consonance, homophones, elision