Vocabulary

Question 1

Rhythm

Answer 1

A strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Question 2

Pun

Answer 2

The pun, is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings

Question 3

Ambiguity

Answer 3

Doubtful need or uncertainty of meaning or intention

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

An idea or feeling that a word gives you in addition to its primary meaning

Question 5

Denotation

Answer 5

The literal or primary meaning of the word in contrast to feelings or ideas that the word suggests

Question 6

Declarative

Answer 6

A declarative sentence is used to convey information or make statements

Question 7

Graphology

Answer 7

The study of handwriting, and the expression of a writer’s character, personality, and abilities

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

Pertaining a practical point of view or consideration

Question 9

Complex sentence structure

Answer 9

A sentence that has an independent clause as well as a dependent clause. e.g. Though he was very rich, he was still very unhappy.

Question 10

Compound sentence structure

Answer 10

A sentence that has two or more clauses. e.g. “A man walks to the station, whilst whistling his favourite tune.

Question 11

Simple sentence structure

Answer 11

A sentence that only has one clause. e.g. “A man walks to the station”

Question 12

Rhyme

Answer 12

Similarity of sound between words or the ending words, especially when these are used to end lines of poetry.

Question 13

Consonance

Answer 13

Refers to repetition of sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase eg: pitter, patter

Question 14

Assonance

Answer 14

Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhymes within sentences or phrases eg: frail, trailed - does not have to be a rhyme as a rhyme depends on consonant and vowels (resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled )

Question 15

Modifier

Answer 15

A word or group of words that describes or limits a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb

Question 16

Abstract noun

Answer 16

A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object

Question 17

Concrete noun

Answer 17

A noun which can be identified through someone’s senses such as touch, sight, smell. For example a phone is a concrete noun, you can touch it, feel it.

Question 18

Symbol

Answer 18

Something used for or regarded as representing something else

Question 19

Grammatical utterance

Answer 19

Incomplete sentence or word

Question 20

Modal verbs

Answer 20

an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility. English modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might.

Question 21

Phonology

Answer 21

the system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language

Question 22

Text

Answer 22

A book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form

Question 23

Discourse

Answer 23

Written or spoken communication or debate, communication of thought through words

Question 24

Lexis

Answer 24

The total stock of words in a language

Question 25

Semantics

Answer 25

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.

Question 26

Syntax

Answer 26

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.