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TERMINOLOGY

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Ellipsis The omission of part of a sentence. 'Hope you get well soon' is an example as the personal pronoun 'I' has been left out. Can also be represented by ... to indicate the missing part of a sentence.
Elision The running together of words or the omission of parts of words - 'gonna' for going to or 'y'know' for you know.
Monosyllabic words Words with only 1 syllable.
Polysyllabic words Words with more than 1 syllable.
Oxymoron When contradictory terms are place together 'bitter sweet'.
Parallelism The reptition of the structure of a phrase or sentence, often for rhetorical effect. 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'.
Repetition/replacement A pattern in which some words/phrases are repeated and others replaced.
Hedge A word/phrase such as 'maybe', 'perhaps', or 'sort of' used to soften the impact of what is said or to make a speech sound more polite.
Phonetic spelling The spelling of words to represent exactly how they are pronounced.
Fillers Sounds such as 'erm' and 'um' and 'er' which speakers use to fill pauses in speech.
Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting words/phrases to create a sense of balance or opposition between two conflicting ideas. E.g. Hell/Heaven, Good/Evil etc.
Created by: pharaohjazz
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