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Character Types & Functions
A character or force opposing the protagonist, creating conflict and driving narrative action.
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Character Types & Functions
A protagonist lacking traditional heroic virtues (nobility, courage, morality) but remaining central to narrative.
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Character Types & Functions
A universal character type, situation, or pattern recurring across literature and cultures (e.g., the hero, the mentor).
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Character Types & Functions
A character who changes significantly throughout narrative through experience and development.
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Character Types & Functions
A simple character defined by few, consistent traits, unchanging throughout narrative.
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Character Types & Functions
A character whose characteristics contrast with the protagonist, highlighting protagonist's qualities.
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Character Types & Functions
A character with psychological depth, complexity, and multiple contradictions who develops throughout narrative.
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Character Types & Functions
A character who remains essentially unchanged throughout narrative.
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Character Types & Functions
A character type recurring in literature, recognisable and conventional (e.g., the wise mentor, the innocent victim).
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Character Types & Functions
A noble protagonist with a tragic flaw (hamartia) leading to inevitable downfall and often death or irreversible loss.
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Coursework and integrated analysis
The distinction between analytical register (objective, formal, evidence-based academic writing) and creative register (
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Coursework and integrated analysis
The organisation of essays comparing two or more texts, involving sustained juxtaposition, identification of similaritie
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Coursework and integrated analysis
The process of receiving feedback on draft work and strategically revising based on that feedback to improve clarity, an
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Principles governing ethical research involving human subjects: informed consent, confidentiality, avoiding harm, right
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A creative piece imitating conventions of a particular genre while creating new content. Pastiche demonstrates genre awa
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Coursework and integrated analysis
Creative piece imitating genre conventions while creating new content, demonstrating genre awareness.
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Coursework and integrated analysis
The practice of seamlessly combining linguistic analysis (phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with literary analys
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Systematic approaches to collecting and analysing language data: observational studies (recording naturally occurring sp
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Coursework and integrated analysis
Explicitly connecting linguistic or literary analysis to theoretical frameworks and models studied in the course.
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Coursework and integrated analysis
Explicitly connecting linguistic or literary analysis to theoretical frameworks and models studied in the course (Labov,
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Understanding the assessment criteria that examiners use when marking 7707 work, allowing you to construct responses tha
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Using precise linguistic and literary terminology in written analysis and commentary. Metalanguage demonstrates analytic
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Coursework and integrated analysis
In the NEA (Non-Examined Assessment), the methodology section documents research design, data collection methods, analyt
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Creative writing techniques that innovatively use language, form, or structure in unconventional ways. Experimentation c
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Innovative use of language, form, or structure in unconventional ways, challenging standard writing practices.
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Coursework and integrated analysis
Standardised systems for representing speech in writing, including marking pauses, overlaps, intonation, stress, and non
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Discourse & Pragmatics
A fundamental conversation unit in discourse analysis consisting of two adjacent turns where the first creates an expect
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Discourse & Pragmatics
A reference technique where a word or phrase refers back to a previously mentioned element in the text. For example, 'Jo
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Discourse & Pragmatics
Short interjections like 'yeah', 'mm', 'right', 'I see' produced by listeners during a speaker's turn to show attention
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Discourse & Pragmatics
A reference technique where a word or phrase refers forward to an element mentioned later in the text. For example, 'As
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Discourse & Pragmatics
Words whose meaning depends on the speaker's context, including personal pronouns ('I', 'you'), demonstratives ('this',
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Discourse & Pragmatics
The overall organisation and pattern of extended talk or text beyond the sentence level. Discourse structure includes na
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Discourse & Pragmatics
The omission of words that are understood from context, creating economy and naturalism in speech and text. For example,
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Discourse & Pragmatics
A conversational mechanism for addressing misunderstandings, errors, or unclear utterances. Repair can be self-initiated
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Drama & Performance
A dramatic convention in which a character addresses the audience directly while other characters on stage cannot hear.
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Drama & Performance
Emotional release or purification experienced by audience through intense dramatic experience.
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Drama & Performance
A group of characters or a single character (Choregos) that comments on action, provides context, and represents collect
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Drama & Performance
Characteristic features of comic drama, including mistaken identity, wordplay, physical humour, lower-status characters,
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Drama & Performance
Written instructions in dramatic texts specifying movement, action, lighting, sound, and other performance elements. Sta
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Drama & Performance
A reader's willing acceptance of fictional premises and conventions, temporarily accepting the truth of the narrative wo
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Drama & Performance
Characteristic features of tragic drama, including a noble protagonist with a tragic flaw, inevitable downfall, catharsi
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Theatrical movement emphasising absurdity, illogicality, meaninglessness, and breakdown of conventional drama.
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Drama & Theatre Forms
A formal debate or contest between two characters in drama, originating in Greek comedy. Agon involves opposing viewpoin
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Drama & Theatre Forms
A form mocking or ridiculing something through exaggerated imitation, often of serious styles or subjects.
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Comic dramatic form satirising social conventions, manners, and affectations of fashionable society.
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Humorous scenes or characters interspersed in serious narratives, providing emotional release and contrast, typically li
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Drama & Theatre Forms
The overall shape and trajectory of dramatic action: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
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Drama & Theatre Forms
A situation where a character or audience possesses information unknown to other characters, creating divergence between
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Comic dramatic form using exaggerated situations, physical humour, absurdity, and rapid pacing for entertainment.
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Dramatic form emphasising exaggerated emotion, moral simplicity (good vs. evil), sensational plots, and heightened senti
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Medieval dramatic form featuring allegorical characters representing virtues and vices, teaching moral lessons.
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Dramatic genre where protagonist seeks revenge for wrong, usually leading to violent downfall.
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Experimental theatre movement emphasising the absurd human condition and rejecting rational conventions.
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A fictional future society characterised by oppressive control, environmental collapse, technological dominance, or soci
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A poetic form in which a speaker addresses a silent listener(s), revealing character through speech. Dramatic monologues
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A literary technique imitating the style or form of another work, author, or genre for humorous or critical effect. Paro
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A literary composition imitating the style of another author or work, typically without mocking intent. Pastiche celebra
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
Characteristic features of realist literature, including truthful representation of ordinary life, psychological depth,
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A literary technique using humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to criticise or mock something (people, institutions
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
The appearance of truth or reality in a narrative, achieved through realistic detail, internal consistency, and plausibl
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
The study of body language, gesture, and facial expression in communication. In drama, kinesics includes movement, gestu
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
Features of speech beyond words themselves: tone of voice, volume, pace, stress, intonation, and vocal qualities (breath
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
The analysis of how physical distance and spatial positioning between characters conveys meaning and reflects relationsh
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Grammar & Syntax
A grammatical feature indicating how an action is experienced across time. Progressive aspect ('is walking') emphasises
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Grammar & Syntax
A grammatical structure that divides a sentence into two parts to emphasise a particular element. For example, 'It was h
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Grammar & Syntax
A word or phrase that completes the meaning of a verb or predicate. Complements can be nouns ('I am a teacher'), adjecti
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Grammar & Syntax
A word that specifies or determines a noun, including articles ('the', 'a'), possessives ('my', 'his'), demonstratives (
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Grammar & Syntax
Finite verbs are marked for tense and agree with subjects ('I walk', 'she walks'). Non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerund
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Grammar & Syntax
An adverbial element (word or phrase) placed at the beginning of a clause, before the main verb. Fronting emphasises the
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Grammar & Syntax
Auxiliary verbs expressing modality (possibility, necessity, obligation, permission), such as 'can', 'could', 'may', 'mi
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Grammar & Syntax
A grammatical unit centred on a noun, which may include determiners, modifiers, and other words that describe or specify
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Grammar & Syntax
The grammatical transformation of active voice sentences to passive voice, moving the object to subject position and obs
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Grammar & Syntax
A subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun ('who', 'which', 'that', 'whose') that provides information about
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Grammar & Syntax
A grammatical unit consisting of a main verb and any auxiliary verbs, expressing an action or state. For example, 'is wa
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Morphology & Word Formation
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of words, pronounced as a word rather than as individual letters, such a
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Morphology & Word Formation
A word formation process where a new word is created by removing a perceived affix or morpheme from an existing word, su
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Morphology & Word Formation
A word formation process combining parts of two existing words to create a new word, such as 'brunch' (breakfast + lunch
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Morphology & Word Formation
A word formation process where a word is shortened while retaining its original meaning and function, such as 'lab' from
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Morphology & Word Formation
A word formation process where two or more free morphemes combine to create a new word with a meaning related to, but di
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Morphology & Word Formation
A word formation process where a word changes grammatical class without morphological change, such as 'google' (noun to
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Morphology & Word Formation
A person's name that becomes a common word or gives its name to something, such as 'boycott' from Charles Boycott or 'sa
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Morphology & Word Formation
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of words, pronounced letter-by-letter rather than as a single word, such
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Morphology & Word Formation
The smallest unit of meaning in a language, either free (standalone) or bound (requiring attachment).
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Morphology & Word Formation
A newly coined word, expression, or use of an existing word that enters a language. Neologisms arise from technological
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Narrative & Poetic Forms of Conflict
A narrative where characters/events represent abstract ideas or principles, creating double meanings.
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Narrative & Poetic Forms of Conflict
A brief narrative with animal characters that teaches a moral lesson.
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A folk narrative featuring magical beings, enchantments, and often happily-ever-after endings.
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A traditional narrative passed through oral tradition, often with fantastical elements and universal themes.
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A traditional narrative, typically about historical person or place, with legendary (possibly fictional) elements.
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A traditional story explaining natural phenomena, social customs, or spiritual truths, often featuring gods or heroes.
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A brief narrative teaching a moral or spiritual lesson through analogy.
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Poetry engaging explicitly with politics, governance, ideology, and power. Political poetry can be protest, celebration,
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Poetry explicitly critiquing social injustice, political systems, war, or oppression. Protest poetry aims to raise consc
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A poetic tradition expressing grief, loss, and mourning. Elegies memoralise the dead and explore themes of mortality, me
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Artistic movement distorting reality to express inner emotion and psychological states rather than objective reality.
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
How texts manipulate reader/audience perspective, alignment, and response through narrative techniques, rhetoric, charac
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
The relationship between where conflict occurs and how the setting shapes, reflects, or contributes to conflict's nature
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
The contrasting effects of dialogue (multi-speaker interchange) versus monologue (single speaker) in representing confli
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
Different endings for conflicts and narratives: comic resolution (happy endings, restoration of order), tragic resolutio
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
Artistic movement using symbols to suggest ideas beyond literal meaning, prioritising mood and emotion.
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
A narrative pattern where tension accumulates through conflict, rising action, and uncertainty, followed by release thro
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
The analysis of how an author's attitude toward subject matter is conveyed through word choice, syntax, imagery, and oth
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
An error in reasoning or argument that appears persuasive but is logically invalid. Common fallacies include ad hominem,
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
A framework for analysing persuasive texts based on three elements: ethos (credibility/character), logos (logic/reasonin
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A representation of speech using characters' exact words in quotation marks. Direct speech creates immediacy and authent
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
Character's exact mental wording, often in first-person and italics.
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
Genette's term for the perspective from which readers perceive narrative events. Focalisation separates the narrator (wh
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A hybrid representation of speech that blends character voice with narrative voice, using character perspective and voca
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A narrator who is not a character in the narrative they tell. Heterodiegetic narrators describe events they observe from
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A narrator who is a character within the narrative they tell, narrating events they participated in or witnessed. Homodi
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A representation of speech paraphrased in the narrator's words, using reported clauses. For example, 'She said that she
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
The tense system used in narration, most commonly past tense (third-person narrative) or present tense (immediate narrat
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
The representation of characters' internal thoughts using three main forms: direct thought ('I hate this'), indirect tho
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Phonology & Pronunciation
A pattern of pronunciation distinctive to a particular region or social group, encompassing phonological features like v
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Phonology & Pronunciation
A variant pronunciation of a phoneme that does not change meaning. Allophones are context-dependent and occur in complem
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Phonology & Pronunciation
The process by which one sound becomes more like an adjacent sound, resulting in predictable modifications at word bound
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Phonology & Pronunciation
When articulation of one sound influences adjacent sounds in connected speech.
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Phonology & Pronunciation
The natural, continuous flow of spoken language in which words blend together, sounds are modified, and syllables may be
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Phonology & Pronunciation
A vowel combining two different vowel qualities transitioning within one syllable.
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Phonology & Pronunciation
The omission of sounds or syllables in connected speech, often for ease of pronunciation. Elided sounds are part of stan
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Phonology & Pronunciation
A consonant created by forcing air through a narrow channel, creating friction.
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Phonology & Pronunciation
A major phonological change in Middle English (roughly 1350-1700) where vowel sounds systematised and shifted, affecting
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Phonology & Pronunciation
The rise and fall of pitch across an utterance, conveying grammatical information, emotion, and speaker attitude. A fall
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Phonology & Pronunciation
The smallest unit of sound in a language that distinguishes meaning between words. Different languages have different ph
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Phonology & Pronunciation
A consonant blocking airflow completely then releasing it abruptly.
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Phonology & Pronunciation
A standardised variety of English pronunciation associated historically with the educated middle classes and BBC broadca
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Phonology & Pronunciation
The neutral vowel /ə/ in unstressed syllables, the most frequent vowel in English.
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Phonology & Pronunciation
The emphasis placed on syllables within words and utterances, using variations in volume, pitch, and duration. Word stre
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
A poetic form characterised by quatrains with alternate rhyme (ABAB or ABCB), often in simple language with repetitive r
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
Poetry in which visual appearance on the page is as important as words or sound, often abandoning conventional linear re
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
A line of poetry that ends with punctuation (period, comma, semicolon) and completes a grammatical phrase or clause. End
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
Running lines into following lines without pause, creating fluidity and disrupting regular rhythm.
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
Poetry emphasising personal emotion, feeling, and consciousness rather than narrative action. Lyric poetry expresses spe
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
A line of poetry that continues without punctuation into the next line, breaking a phrase or clause across lines. Run-on
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter with specific rhyme schemes. The two major forms are Shakespearean (ABAB CDCD EFEF G
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Rhetorical & Literary Language
Vocabulary from earlier historical periods that is rarely used in contemporary language. Archaic words persist in certai
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Rhetorical & Literary Language
Extreme exaggeration for emphasis, emotional effect, or humour.
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Rhetorical & Literary Language
Combining contradictory or opposite words in close proximity.
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Rhetorical & Literary Language
Wordplay exploiting multiple meanings or similar-sounding words for humour or effect.
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Rhetorical & Literary Language
Deliberate downplaying or minimising for effect, often creating irony or humour.
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Rhetorical & Literary Language
Using a word in two different senses or grammatical functions within one sentence.
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Semantics & Meaning Change
A process of semantic change in which a word's meaning becomes more positive or prestigious over time. For example, 'lad
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Semantics & Meaning Change
The semantic relationship between words with opposite meanings, such as 'hot' and 'cold', 'big' and 'small'. Antonyms cl
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Semantics & Meaning Change
A semantic change process in which a word's meaning becomes more general or expansive. For example, 'go' originally mean
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Semantics & Meaning Change
The habitual association of particular words together, such as 'strong coffee' but 'powerful argument'. Collocations sho
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Semantics & Meaning Change
Semantic relationships of inclusion: hypernyms are general categories (e.g., 'animal'), hyponyms are specific examples w
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Semantics & Meaning Change
A group of words related by shared semantic features or meaning, such as colour words, emotion words, or terms for famil
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Semantics & Meaning Change
Referring to one thing by the name of something associated with it.
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Semantics & Meaning Change
A semantic change process in which a word's meaning becomes more restricted or specific. For example, 'meat' originally
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Semantics & Meaning Change
A process of semantic change in which a word's meaning becomes more negative or lower in status over time. For instance,
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Semantics & Meaning Change
The process by which word meanings shift, evolve, or transform over time. Semantic change includes narrowing, broadening
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Semantics & Meaning Change
The semantic relationship between words with similar or equivalent meanings, such as 'happy' and 'pleased'. Perfect syno
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Semantics & Meaning Change
A figure of speech where a part stands for the whole, or vice versa.
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
The practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties within a conversation or text, often use
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
The process of establishing and recording explicit rules for a language, typically through dictionaries, grammar books,
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
An approach to language that observes and describes how language is actually used by speakers and writers, without judgi
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
A language variety associated with a particular geographical region or social group, encompassing distinctive vocabulary
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
A stable linguistic situation where two language varieties coexist in a speech community, each used in different social
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
The unique language system used by an individual, incorporating their distinctive vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar pat
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
Specialised vocabulary used within a particular profession, activity, or social group. Jargon serves to communicate prec
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
The study of how gender is constructed, expressed, and negotiated through language, including distinctive speech pattern
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
The relationship between linguistic choices and how individuals and groups construct, express, and negotiate identity th
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
An approach to language that emphasises established rules and 'correct' usage, prescribing how language 'should' be used
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
Informal vocabulary and expressions used within specific social groups or age groups, typically with limited social acce
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
A language variety associated with a particular social group, defined by characteristics like class, profession, age, or
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
The process by which a language variety becomes codified, accepted as a norm, and used in formal institutions, gradually
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Sociolinguistics & Language Variation
Words and expressions considered offensive, forbidden, or inappropriate within a society. Taboo varies by culture, time
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
A creative writing technique where narrative or text is adapted for a different audience, requiring changes in register,
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
In Barthes' narrative analysis, the code of cultural reference and intertextuality, where texts activate shared cultural
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Narratives created for or distributed through digital platforms, employing hypertext, multimedia, interactive elements,
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Narrative focalization concerns whose perspective structures narrative perception and knowledge. Zero focalization offer
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
A creative writing technique where a story is retold in a different genre, transforming conventions, form, and style whi
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
In Barthes' narrative analysis, the code of mystery and delayed revelation, creating suspense through questions posed an
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Sociolinguist William Labov's framework for analysing narrative structure: abstract (summary), orientation (context), co
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
The analysis of texts combining multiple communicative modes (visual, verbal, aural, gestural, spatial), examining how d
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
A creative writing technique where a narrative is retold from a different character's perspective or viewpoint, altering
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Textual elements surrounding the primary text, including titles, epigraphs, prefaces, author's notes, illustrations, and
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
In Barthes' narrative analysis, the code of action and event sequence, where actions create causal chains and narrative
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Vladimir Propp's structuralist framework identifying archetypal character roles in narratives: the hero, villain, dispat
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
In Barthes' narrative analysis, the code of theme and meaning, where semantic associations cluster around key concepts,
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Linguistic and paralinguistic features characteristic of oral storytelling, including narrative markers, intonation, ges
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
In Barthes' narrative analysis, the code of symbols and symbolic associations, where objects, actions, characters, and s
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Creative techniques of altering narrative temporality: reordering events (non-linear narratives), fragmenting time, reve
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
Tzvetan Todorov's framework for narrative structure: initial equilibrium (stable state), disruption (event disturbing eq
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Telling Stories analysis and re-creative writing
The deliberate construction of a character's or narrator's distinctive voice through lexical choices, sentence structure
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Textual Analysis & Theory
Linguistic mechanisms that create coherence within and between sentences, including lexical cohesion (vocabulary repetit
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Textual Analysis & Theory
A technique rendering the familiar strange or unusual through specific linguistic and stylistic choices, forcing readers
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Textual Analysis & Theory
The technique of emphasising particular linguistic or stylistic features through deviation from norms, making them perce
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Textual Analysis & Theory
Cohesion achieved through grammatical structures and relationships, including pronoun reference (anaphora, cataphora), c
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Textual Analysis & Theory
Cohesion achieved through vocabulary relationships, including word repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy/hypernymy, a
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Textual Analysis & Theory
A cognitive framework explaining how readers use mental schemas (structured knowledge of concepts, situations, and patte
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Textual Analysis & Theory
A theoretical framework proposing that readers construct a mental 'text world' while reading, combining textual informat
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Textual Analysis & Theory
Authorial techniques for controlling narrative time, including prolepsis (foreshadowing), analepsis (flashback), ellipsi
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Types of Conflict
Conflict based on social class divisions, including economic inequality, differing values and opportunities between clas
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Types of Conflict
Conflict arising from colonialism, including relationships between colonisers and colonised, exploitation, cultural dest
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Types of Conflict
Conflict arising from gender inequality, different social expectations for genders, and struggles over agency, identity,
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Types of Conflict
Conflict between characters of different generations, based on differing values, beliefs, life experiences, and attitude
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Types of Conflict
Conflict arising from competing moral principles, ethical dilemmas, or incompatible values. Moral conflict often has no
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Types of Conflict
A distinction between external, bodily conflict (violence, action, physical struggle) and internal, mental conflict (mor
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Conflict based on differing religious beliefs, practices, or values within societies or between individuals. Religious c
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