Metalanguage
Language about how language is used is called this.
What is metalanguage?
The main opinion of the writer or speaker.
What is the contention?
The ideas or points that support a writer or speaker's contention are called these.
What are supporting arguments?
We, us and our are examples of this feature.
What is inclusive language?
There were buses, cars, trucks, taxis, vans clogging the streets.
This is an example of which language feature?
What is listing?
The focus of this unit is to look at how writers and speakers persuade an audience to agree with their contention on an issue and then we express our points of view.
What is analysing argument?
The people that the piece is intended for.
What is the audience?
The feeling that writers and speakers put into their words is called this.
What is tone?
She acted like a fish out of water.
This is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is a simile?
Take-over bid tips over the top.
The repetition of the 't' is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
Trying to get people to agree with a certain point of view.
What is persuade?
When, where and how something was communicated is part of this.
What is the context?
Number facts, usually from research is called this.
What is statistics?
They, them, those, that - are examples of this language feature.
What is exclusive language?
When a writer or speaker emphasises something by using it multiple times it is called this.
What is repetition?
Another name for a contention is this.
What is a 'point of view'?
The problem or topic being debated is called this.
What is the issue?
A personal story told by the writer or speaker is called this.
What is an anecdote?
Imagine what it must be like to feel too scared to go to your workplace. To be afraid that your colleagues will bully and hurt you.
This is an example of which appeal?
What is an appeal to sympathy or appeal to fairness?
When you appeal to people trying to make them feel sorry for something or someone it is called this.
What is an appeal to sympathy?
Convince, manipulate, coerce, pressure - are all examples of this.
What is persuade?
'I think uniforms should be banned' is an example of this.
What is a contention?
A quote from a doctor on a medical issue would be called this.
When you have a go at the person and not their argument, trying to make them seem less credible (stupid), it is called this.
What is an attack?
When a writer or speaker implies that something will cost the audience more if they don't change, it is called this.
What is an appeal to the hip-pocket?
When you have an opinion on an issue it is called this phrase.
What is point of view?
'Should all new coal projects be stopped?' is an example of this.
What is an issue?
When you ask a question, but you imply the answer it is called this.
What is a rhetorical question?
When you use slang or language that people from the area or country will know like 'stone the crows', it is called this.
What is colloquial language?
When the writer or speaker tries to get the audience to agree by showing how important their country is, it is called this.
The specific reason for which a piece is written or spoken.
What is purpose?
'Working parents who have more than one child in child care' is an example of this.
What is audience?
When you exaggerate something for effect it is called this.
What is hyperbole?
It was so terrifying I could feel my skin crawl and felt shivers up and down my spine.
Here are two examples of this language feature.
What is a cliche?
A stereotype about a group of people or a situation is called this.
What is a generalisation?
A person writes about the government and wants to change the tax system, but their real reason is to make the government look silly and incompetent - is an example of this.
What is purpose?
An article in the Traralgon College newsletter published just after school starts - is an example of this.
What is context?
We will make changes. We will do things differently. We will do better in the future.
This is an example of this technique.
What is a set of three?
When a person like a teacher has an opinion on an issue relating to education, they have this.
What is bias?
We need to uphold the same rules that we have always had. There is no point in changing something for the sake of it.
This is an example of this appeal.
What is an appeal to tradition or appeal to fear of change?