A LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY COMPLETE LATEST FINAL EXAM
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Back Channelling
A way of showing a speaker that you are following what they are saying and understand, often
through interjections like I see, yes, OK and uhu.
Tag Questions
Changing a declarative or imperative sentence mood into an interrogative. Some theorists see
this as a sign of inferiority on the part of women.
Comment Clause
A short word group (such as "you see" and "I think") that adds a parenthetical remark to
another word group.
Hyperbole
An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an
eternity."
Stative Verbs
Verbs that express a state rather than an action. They usually relate to thoughts, emotions,
relationships, senses, states of being and measurements.
Fillers
A sound produced by speakers to keep a conversation going and avoid silence.
Antonyms
Words with opposite semantic value.
Abstract Nouns
A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
Acronym
A word composed of the initials of other words.
Asyndetic Listing
A list of items with the omission of the conjunction "and".
,Syndetic Listing
A listing of items with the use of the conjunction "and".
Adjective
A word that describes a noun.
Abbreviation
A shortened form of a word or phrase.
Collective Nouns
A count noun that denotes a group of individuals.
Pronoun
A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the
participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in
the discourse (e.g. she, it, this).
Alliteration
A sequence of words beginning with the same sound.
Concrete Noun
You experience them through your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. If you
cannot see, hear, taste, touch, or smell something, it is not this.
Assonance
Repetition of the same vowel sound.
Cataphoric Reference
Referencing forwards to an as yet undisclosed lexical item.
Dynamic Verb
Verbs where the situation described by the verb process changes over time and it involves a
dynamic process.
Idiolect
The speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
Litotes
,Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.
Non Fluency Features
Features that interrupt that flow of speech.
Onomatopoeia
The use of words which sound echoes their meaning.
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the
representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Pathetic Fallacy
The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art
and literature.
Pre-modifier
A word, especially an adjective or a noun, that is placed before a noun and describes it or
restricts its meaning in some way In 'a loud noise', the adjective 'loud' is a pre-modifier.
Preposition
A word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to
another word or element in the clause, as in 'the man on the platform', 'she arrived after
dinner', 'what did you do it for ?'
Proper Nouns
A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things
common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun.
Syllable
A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants,
forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in
inferno.
Accent
The specific way words are pronounced according to geographical region.
Simile
, A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind,
used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Prefix
An affix attached to the front of a root word that creates a new word.
Conjunction
A word which joins together different parts of a sentence.
Determiner
A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example
a, the, every.
Adjacency Pairs
Two utterances by different speakers that have a natural and logical link, and complete an idea
together; a simple structure of two turns.
Active Voice
When the verb of a sentence is in this voice, the subject is doing the acting, as in the sentence
"Kevin hit the ball." Kevin (the subject of the sentence) acts in relation to the ball.
Amelioration
The denotation of a particular word has become more positive diachronically.
Coinage
The creation of a completely new word.
Compound
A word/expression formed from other words.
Contraction
The process of shortening a word by combination or elision.
Dialect
The language variety of a geographical region or social background, revealed by a variation in
lexical and grammatical terms.
Genre
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Back Channelling
A way of showing a speaker that you are following what they are saying and understand, often
through interjections like I see, yes, OK and uhu.
Tag Questions
Changing a declarative or imperative sentence mood into an interrogative. Some theorists see
this as a sign of inferiority on the part of women.
Comment Clause
A short word group (such as "you see" and "I think") that adds a parenthetical remark to
another word group.
Hyperbole
An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an
eternity."
Stative Verbs
Verbs that express a state rather than an action. They usually relate to thoughts, emotions,
relationships, senses, states of being and measurements.
Fillers
A sound produced by speakers to keep a conversation going and avoid silence.
Antonyms
Words with opposite semantic value.
Abstract Nouns
A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
Acronym
A word composed of the initials of other words.
Asyndetic Listing
A list of items with the omission of the conjunction "and".
,Syndetic Listing
A listing of items with the use of the conjunction "and".
Adjective
A word that describes a noun.
Abbreviation
A shortened form of a word or phrase.
Collective Nouns
A count noun that denotes a group of individuals.
Pronoun
A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the
participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in
the discourse (e.g. she, it, this).
Alliteration
A sequence of words beginning with the same sound.
Concrete Noun
You experience them through your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. If you
cannot see, hear, taste, touch, or smell something, it is not this.
Assonance
Repetition of the same vowel sound.
Cataphoric Reference
Referencing forwards to an as yet undisclosed lexical item.
Dynamic Verb
Verbs where the situation described by the verb process changes over time and it involves a
dynamic process.
Idiolect
The speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
Litotes
,Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.
Non Fluency Features
Features that interrupt that flow of speech.
Onomatopoeia
The use of words which sound echoes their meaning.
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the
representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Pathetic Fallacy
The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art
and literature.
Pre-modifier
A word, especially an adjective or a noun, that is placed before a noun and describes it or
restricts its meaning in some way In 'a loud noise', the adjective 'loud' is a pre-modifier.
Preposition
A word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to
another word or element in the clause, as in 'the man on the platform', 'she arrived after
dinner', 'what did you do it for ?'
Proper Nouns
A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things
common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun.
Syllable
A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants,
forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in
inferno.
Accent
The specific way words are pronounced according to geographical region.
Simile
, A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind,
used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Prefix
An affix attached to the front of a root word that creates a new word.
Conjunction
A word which joins together different parts of a sentence.
Determiner
A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example
a, the, every.
Adjacency Pairs
Two utterances by different speakers that have a natural and logical link, and complete an idea
together; a simple structure of two turns.
Active Voice
When the verb of a sentence is in this voice, the subject is doing the acting, as in the sentence
"Kevin hit the ball." Kevin (the subject of the sentence) acts in relation to the ball.
Amelioration
The denotation of a particular word has become more positive diachronically.
Coinage
The creation of a completely new word.
Compound
A word/expression formed from other words.
Contraction
The process of shortening a word by combination or elision.
Dialect
The language variety of a geographical region or social background, revealed by a variation in
lexical and grammatical terms.
Genre
