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Linguistic Frameworks for Langlit
The more of these terms you can use accurately, the better chance you have of a decent
grade.
Lexis:
Register - high, mid, low
Mode - spoken, written, mixed
Monosyllabic/polysyllabic
Slang/taboo/colloquial
Formal/informal
Field-specific/jargon
Standard English/dialectical
Idiom/cliché
Semantics:
Semantic fields
Polysemy
Puns
Collocation
Connotation/denotation
Euphemism
Grammar:
Nouns - abstract, concrete, proper
Adjectives, adverbs, modifiers, intensifiers
Verbs - present, past, future, modal, active voice, passive voice
Pronouns - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person, singular, plural
Sentences - simple, compound, complex
Graphology:
Overall layout
Images
Colour
Font
Spelling/punctuation
Phonology:
Alliteration/consonance
Sibilance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Plosives
Fricatives
Rhetoric:
Rhetorical questions
Parallelism
Traidic lists
Balance & opposition - ‘them & us’
Promises & threats
Discourse:
Speech features - fillers, colloquialisms etc
Interactive structures - adjacency pairs etc
Hesitation and hedging