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Grammar Test - Answers

Grammar Test - Answers. Language Levels/Linguistic Frameworks. Lexis. Aims and Objectives. Aim: for you to be able to analyse texts for lexical choices Objectives: Recognise different types of lexis Note down formal and informal lexis quickly Analyse texts using appropriate terminology.

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Grammar Test - Answers

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  1. Grammar Test - Answers

  2. Language Levels/Linguistic Frameworks Lexis

  3. Aims and Objectives Aim: for you to be able to analyse texts for lexical choices Objectives: • Recognise different types of lexis • Note down formal and informal lexis quickly • Analyse texts using appropriate terminology

  4. Lexis simply means vocabulary.

  5. We have looked at synonyms, but what is the opposite of a synonym? Antonym – words that have opposite meanings

  6. When analysing texts using this framework, look out for:

  7. What do you notice about the lexis in this clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCklKO1_jPs

  8. Figurative/rhetorical language puns

  9. Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism-when animals or non-human characters are given human characteristics. Anthropomorphismis slightly different from personification, which is describing an object using human characteristics. Anthropomorphismis actually having the animal or object behave as if it is human In the Disney film, Beauty and the Beast, the clock (Cogsworth), candlestick (Lumier), and the teapot (Mrs. Pots) all act and behave as if they are human beings. In the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the characters are all animals. For example, old Major, a pig, has a dream where all animals are free from the tyranny of the farmer. Many classic Disney characters are anthropomorphised: • Mickey and Minnie Mouse • Donald and Daisy Duck

  10. Synthetic Personalisation Introduced by Norman Fairclough, this is the way the text producers use personalised language to construct a relationship between them and the text receiver. For example, using pronouns we, you, us. It is the way in which text producers make their audience feel as if they are being personally addressed.

  11. Plenary Task Individually, work through each of the texts you have been given, focussing on lexis and semantics. Annotate each text, commenting on: • What is the text’s mode? • GAP the text • Register – formal or informal? • Lexical choices – this includes all of the features we have gone through this week • Pick out one word from each text and be prepared to tell us the significance of this word within the text We will share our ideas as a class at the end of the activity.

  12. Recap – quiz! • What is metonymy and what is its effect? • Body of people behind a building/concept • What’s the difference between initialisms and acronyms? • Sound initials as letters of alphabet / pronounce initials as a new word • When one uses more insulting lexis this is a … • dysphemism • When the lexis is three or more syllables long • Polysyllabic lexis • A new word formed from already existing ones … • neologism • Two words put together to form a new meaning • compound

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