english terminology paper 2

Conservatism

a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change.

Alliteration

reoccurance of similar sounds /letters at the beginning of two words that are close to each other.

Hierarchy

A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority.

Ideology

A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Proper noun

A noun that designates a particular being or thing (a name)

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Feminism

The belief in social, economic and political equality of the sexes- committed to the activity on behalf of women's right & interests.

Disjuncts

sentence adverbs that work to express an attitude or stance towards material that follows

Exclamative

could create a sense of surprise, delight, tension or horror.

Motif

a decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern.

Secularisation

Action or process of converting something from religious to secular possession or use Angel- of- the- house The Victorian image of an ideal wife or women.

Indoctrination

________ The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

Marxism

________ A political and economic theory where a society has no classes.

Heterodiegetic

________ narrator a narrator who is not present as a character in the story.

Binary opposites

A pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning.

Storyworld

The fictional world that is shaped and framed by the narrative.

Consumerism

________ The idea that increasing the consumption of goods and services purchased in the market is always a desirable goal and improves a person's wellbeing.

Sublime

________ An artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.

Intradiegetic characters

an actor with a full part to play in the story told, or an observer of events in which he or she is personally uninvolved.

Characterisation

________ The act of characterizing or describing the individual quality of a person or thing.

Objective Correlative

________ the artistic and literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols which become indicative of that emotion and are associated with it.

Compound Sentence

a sentence with more than one subject, verb, or object.

Juxtaposition

________ an act or instance of placing two elements close together or side by side.

Omniscient

________ narrator third person narration in which the teller of the tale, assumes a all- knowing perspective on the story being told.

Oppression

________ A situation in which a person or a group people are controlled in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities and freedom.

Interrogative

________ could demonstrate a character's self doubt or instil doubt in others.

literary composition

Leitmotif a recurrent theme throughout a musical or composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.

Dystopian

An imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.

Trope

a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

Galvanism

When electricity is used in a scientific practice and seemed to show some promise in reanimating body parts of recently dead animals and humans.

Pathetic Fallacy

________ the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

Parrallelism

________ foregrounding through repetition at any one of the language levels.

Conceit

an extended rhetorical device summed up in a short phrase, that refers to a situation which either does not exist, or exists rarely, but is needed for the plot.

Ego centric

________ Thinking only of oneself, without regard for the feelings or desires of others; self- centred Hubris Excessive pride or self- confidence.

Totalitarian regime

form of government where there is only one political party which controls everything and does not allow any opposition parties.

Capitalism

economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Romanticism

movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy.

Extradiegetic Narrator

________ one who narrates a story from outside the fictional universe of a particular text.

Victorian

victorian era spans the 63- year reign of Queen Victoria (1837- 1901)

Symbolism

________ the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Discourse marker

word, phrases or clauses that help organise the way we write or speak adjuncts non- essential elements of clauses that can be omitted.

Feminism

The belief in social, economic and political equality of the sexes committed to the activity on behalf of women's right & interests

Verbs

A word used to describe an action Doing words

Appositive phrase

grammatical construction two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side so one element identifies the other in a different way (finish line)

Epistemic Modality

concerned with degrees of certainty & possibility (modality= means through subjective opinion is presented in language)