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Phonology: English Language: Semantics

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This deck covers key concepts in English semantics, including definitions and examples of denotation, connotation, figurative language, and more.

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What is the ‘actual’ meaning of a word called?

Denotation

E.g. Red Is a colour

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Definition

What is the ‘actual’ meaning of a word called?

Denotation

E.g. Red Is a colour

What is the ‘implied/associated’ meaning of a word called?
Connotation E.g. Red signifies love/passion/blood/anger
What can connotations be?
Ambiguous. Meaning they vary from P2P
What is a semantic field?
An overall group/pool of words that are connected in meaning.
What are the words that make up a semantic field called!
Field specified lexis
What can using specific synonyms repeatedly be an example of?
Regional dialect E.g “our kid” for sibling
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Phonology: English Language: Semantics
TermDefinition

What is the ‘actual’ meaning of a word called?

Denotation

E.g. Red Is a colour

What is the ‘implied/associated’ meaning of a word called?
Connotation E.g. Red signifies love/passion/blood/anger
What can connotations be?
Ambiguous. Meaning they vary from P2P
What is a semantic field?
An overall group/pool of words that are connected in meaning.
What are the words that make up a semantic field called!
Field specified lexis
What can using specific synonyms repeatedly be an example of?
Regional dialect E.g “our kid” for sibling
What is figurative language?
Where the writer describes things in a more imaginative way, adding more colour to the text and adding a deeper level of detail

What are the 5 main examples of figurative language?

  • Similes

  • Metaphors

  • Personification

  • Metonymy

  • Oxymoron

What are similes?
Comparisons using ‘like’ or ‘as’
What are metaphors?
Comparisons that describe something as if it were something else. E.g blanket of snow
What is personification?
Where human qualities are given to a non human object/situation
What is metonymy?
Using a part of something to describe the whole thing E.g using ‘crown’ to describe ‘the monarchy’

When a figurative expression is overused it can lose its ______ and become a _____

IMPACT

Cliché

E.g. As good as gold.

What is an overused metaphor known as?
Dead metaphor. E.g. ‘It’s a piece of cake’
What does oxymoron do?
Bring 2 conflicting ideas together
What is jargon?
Specialist/technical vocabulary only understood by a select group of people
What is hyperbole?
Using EXAGGERATION! for effect
What are rhetorical questions?
Questions that don’t require an answer
What is list of 3 used for?
To build climax and/or to describe something in detail

What is repetition?

When words/phrases/ideas are repeated

It can create lexical cohesion.