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For the AP exam, you should be able to describe an author’s diction (for example, formal or informal, ornate or plain) and understand the ways in which diction can complement the author’s purpose. Diction, combined with syntax, figurative language, literary devices, etc., creates an author’s style.
a form of prejudice in favour of or against an idea, person or group, expressed through language/images and so on. It can take obvious or implicit forms, or a mixture of the two, and can arise from what is omitted as well as from what is stated or shown.
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Code mixing is expressions in which a mixture of the grammar of one language and another language is used without altering the grammar of the first language used. According to Wardhaugh (1992:107-108), “conversational code-mixing involves the deliberate mixing of two languages without an associated topic change”.
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This glossary includes linguistic, grammatical, comprehension, and literary terms that may be helpful in understanding reading instruction. academic language vocabulary that is found across text types, especially in written texts that provide more nuanced or sophisticated ways of expressing meaning than everyday language.
- Haruko Momma
- accusative See case.
- borrowing See loan word.
- when it started to rain); a relative clause when introduced by a relative pronoun
- clear l See dark l.
- complement (C) See clause element.
The following glossary includes some of the linguistic terms found in this volume. The defi nitions provided here refl ect the way the terms are used by the authors. For more general or detailed defi nitions, consult dictionaries of linguistic terms or the glossaries appended to textbooks of the history of the English language. For terms related to...
acrolect See dialect, social. active See voice, grammatical.
C May stand for “consonant” as in CVC (consonant–verb–consonant, for words like cat), or for “complement” as in SVC (subject–verb–complement, for a clause like they are students). case Refers to infl ections, or grammatical forms, of pronouns, nouns, and adjectives to denote their syntactic functions within the clause. Old English had at least four...
like who or which (e.g., the children who were playing there went away).
cognate Having a common linguistic ancestor. Cognate languages have derived from a shared parent language: e.g., English and German from proto-Germanic. Cognate words derive from an earlier single word or word element: e.g., the English eight and the Latin octo from PIE *okto ̄(u).
compound A word consisting of two or more independently existing words: e.g., tablespoon, gentlewoman. In English, compounding has been a productive method of word formation. concord See agreement. conjugation The infl ection of verbs. A fi nite verb is conjugated or infl ected in cor-respondence with the subject of the clause: e.g., he likes to re...
For the AP exam, you should be able to describe an author's diction (for example, formal or informal, ornate or plain) and understand the ways in which diction can complement the author's purpose. Diction, combined with syntax, figurative language, literary devices, etc., creates an author's style.
For the AP exam, you should be able to describe an author's diction (for example, formal or informal, ornate or plain) and understand the ways in which diction can complement the author's purpose. Diction, combined with syntax, figurative language, literary devices, etc., creates an author's style.
