English Language Terminology

Declarative Sentence - Sentence that forms a statement
Interrogative Sentence - Sentence that proposes a question
Imperative Sentence - Sentence that makes a command or request
1. Mitigated Imperative - Using hedging or modal verbs to make a sentence seem less direct
Exclamative Sentence - Sentence reflecting strong emotion and feeling using exclamation
Hyperbole - Extreme Exaggeration
Euphenism - Sopthens or hides a meaning (hedging) e.g passed away
Parenthesis - Use of brackets
Influenticial power - power used to influence/persuade others
Synthetic Personalisation - Construct a relationship with the reader e.g You
Ideology - Set of beliefs or attitudes set by an individual or group
Passive Verb - A word stating something will be/ does get done
conjunction - Used the connect phrases
Modal Verbs - an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility e.g might, should, would, must
Accomodation - How a text accomadates for different readers
Lexical Connectives - connectives that link up to create cohesion
1. Cohesion - How well the text fits together as a whole
Jargon - terminology used that is specific to the topic/subject
Downward and upward convergence - How language is altered to relate to a new audience e.g politician talking to teenagers to relate to them
Dialect - form of spoken language specific to a area
Sociolect - spoken language of a group e.g working class
Idiolect - Language which is personal/ specific to the person

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