The process by which a phoneme becomes more like a neighbouring sound.
What is assimilation?
100
A class of words that ‘point’ out nouns. The most common in English is the ‘article’.
What is a determiner?
100
An independent clause or combination of clauses that forms a complete statement.
What is a sentence?
100
The use of prior knowledge to make sense of a text where something is not explicitly stated but implied.
What is inference?
100
A play on words in which a word has multiple meanings or interpretations simultaneously. Typically for humorous effect.
What is a pun?
200
These are the three most predominant Australian accents.
What are broad, cultivated and general?
200
A sub-class of nouns that replace nouns to avoid repetition.
What are pronouns?
200
These are the four sentence types.
What are interrogative, imperative, declarative and exclamative?
200
The practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.
What is code-switching?
200
The use of words to express something different and often opposite to their literal meaning. It is marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
What is irony?
300
These are the three vocal effects.
What is breath, coughing, laughter?
300
One is a verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs; the other indicates modality such as possibility, obligation, permission, or ability.
What are auxiliary verbs and modal verbs?
300
These are the four sentence structures.
What are simple, compound, complex, and compound complex?
300
One highlights a constituent that appears at the end of a sentence or clause, the other highlights a constituent that appears at the beginning of a sentence or clause.
What is end focus and front focus?
300
A figurative use of language in which one thing is described in terms of another. Creates implicit comparisons between things. May be expressive, poetic, or used to help explain a concept.
What is a metaphor?
400
One is the use of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words, or in close succession; another the repetition of identical vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of successive words; the last is the repetition of identical consonant sounds, especially in the final syllables of successive words (in order).
What are alliteration, assonance and consonance?
400
These are the three types of affixation.
What are prefix, suffix and infix?
400
These are three of the six types of syntactic patterning.
What are antithesis, superlatives, double negatives, listing, paralellism, parataxis?
400
These are the three kinds of reference found within a text.
What are anaphoric, cataphoric, and deictic references?
400
The two '-nyms'; the first denotes a higher order categories of things, the second subcategories of a higher order category.
What is hypernymy and hyponymy?
500
These are the five prosodic features.
What are intonation, pitch, stress, tempo and volume?
500
These are three of the six types of open class words (words classes that have new additions over time).
What are adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs?
500
These are three reasons why one would use an agentless passive construction.
When (1)the agent is unimportant, uninteresting, or obvious; (2) the agent is unknown; (3)to create a more formal register; (4)to switch focus from agent to patient; (5)to hide responsibility for an action?
500
What are question-answer, compliment-response and apology-response examples of?
What are adjacency pairs?
500
A denial of a negative. Understatements that leave the audience to recognise that the writer/speaker could have put their point more strongly (ie: "that's not bad").