Language and Composition Terms
... mood – The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Setting, tone, and events can affect the mood. Mood is similar to tone and atmosphere. narrative – The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. onomatopoeia – A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitate ...
... mood – The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Setting, tone, and events can affect the mood. Mood is similar to tone and atmosphere. narrative – The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. onomatopoeia – A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitate ...
Glossary of Terms -- AP English Language and Composition
... and "cruel kindness." This term does not usually appear in the multiple-choice questions, but there is a chance that you might find it in an essay. Take note of the effect which the author achieves with this term. paradox -- A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sens ...
... and "cruel kindness." This term does not usually appear in the multiple-choice questions, but there is a chance that you might find it in an essay. Take note of the effect which the author achieves with this term. paradox -- A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sens ...
Music and meaning, ambiguity and evolution
... abstraction of evident meaning in a piece of music by a listener or performer will depend on the continual making of inferences - 'generation of expectations' in Meyer's terms - which may or may not be fulfilled as the music unfolds. The types of information that underlie and that may constitute mus ...
... abstraction of evident meaning in a piece of music by a listener or performer will depend on the continual making of inferences - 'generation of expectations' in Meyer's terms - which may or may not be fulfilled as the music unfolds. The types of information that underlie and that may constitute mus ...
lex-smx - School of Computer Science
... • In other languages – Inchoative verbs may be reflexive (e.g., Romance languages) – There may be a causative marker on the transitive verb. ...
... • In other languages – Inchoative verbs may be reflexive (e.g., Romance languages) – There may be a causative marker on the transitive verb. ...
Terms – AP English Language and Composition These terms
... limited to, repetition of a grammatical element such as a preposition or verbal phrase. (Again, the opening of Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities is an example: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of believe, it was ...
... limited to, repetition of a grammatical element such as a preposition or verbal phrase. (Again, the opening of Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities is an example: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of believe, it was ...
LTF - Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
... Even though the basic pattern in these sentences is similar, the use of different kinds of phrases has created variety for the reader. The use of the same type of phrases joined by a linking verb also creates a balanced or parallel structure (parallelism). 15. Now rewrite Sentence A, changing the fi ...
... Even though the basic pattern in these sentences is similar, the use of different kinds of phrases has created variety for the reader. The use of the same type of phrases joined by a linking verb also creates a balanced or parallel structure (parallelism). 15. Now rewrite Sentence A, changing the fi ...
Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea
... (René van den Berg & Robert L. Busenitz: 2012, p. 27). Categorizing words by their ‘looks’ (morphology / syntactic distribution) and ‘fixed’ grammatical functions, assigned to them outside of each sentence mosaic, is indeed bound to be subjective to individual perception, for we all view the world t ...
... (René van den Berg & Robert L. Busenitz: 2012, p. 27). Categorizing words by their ‘looks’ (morphology / syntactic distribution) and ‘fixed’ grammatical functions, assigned to them outside of each sentence mosaic, is indeed bound to be subjective to individual perception, for we all view the world t ...
ASSIGNMENT ONE ASSIGNMENT TWO
... You will be responsible for making flashcards for the attached list of commonly used AP Language terms. These flashcards will be checked September 1, 2017. The flashcard should have the word listed on the front of the card. The back of the card should include the definition of the word and a real wo ...
... You will be responsible for making flashcards for the attached list of commonly used AP Language terms. These flashcards will be checked September 1, 2017. The flashcard should have the word listed on the front of the card. The back of the card should include the definition of the word and a real wo ...
Sentence Patterns*
... Tim Tebow threw a game winning touchdown pass in overtime, yet many fans still consider him to be a terrible quarterback. Write a Compound Sentence using a conjunction that isn’t “and”. For, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So ...
... Tim Tebow threw a game winning touchdown pass in overtime, yet many fans still consider him to be a terrible quarterback. Write a Compound Sentence using a conjunction that isn’t “and”. For, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So ...
The Cyc Lexicon
... This says: One denotation of the word mother qua CountNoun is the collection of things M such that: (relationExistsInstance mother Thing M) i.e. the set of all mothers ...
... This says: One denotation of the word mother qua CountNoun is the collection of things M such that: (relationExistsInstance mother Thing M) i.e. the set of all mothers ...
Mental lexicon - Griffith University
... words like KNOW, SAY, THINK and WORD(S), that is words which (as will be discussed below) have equivalents in all languages, including Polish, and thus stand for universal human concepts, which can serve us as valid, non-ethnocentric tools for investigating any language and any way of thinking. The ...
... words like KNOW, SAY, THINK and WORD(S), that is words which (as will be discussed below) have equivalents in all languages, including Polish, and thus stand for universal human concepts, which can serve us as valid, non-ethnocentric tools for investigating any language and any way of thinking. The ...
Year 6 Grammar Guide - Marchwood Junior School
... Example 3: You will need to pack some key essentials: sunglasses, sun cream, towels and goggles. The opening statement is complete so a colon is correct to use before the items. ...
... Example 3: You will need to pack some key essentials: sunglasses, sun cream, towels and goggles. The opening statement is complete so a colon is correct to use before the items. ...
Russell`s view of propositions in the Principles of Mathematics
... So it seems that ‘humanity’ must stand for a thing, rather than a concept. But in a sentence like Socrates is human. it seems clear that ‘Socrates’ stands for a thing, and so that ‘human’ stands for a concept. So is the correct view that ‘human’ and ‘humanity’ have different meanings? Russell think ...
... So it seems that ‘humanity’ must stand for a thing, rather than a concept. But in a sentence like Socrates is human. it seems clear that ‘Socrates’ stands for a thing, and so that ‘human’ stands for a concept. So is the correct view that ‘human’ and ‘humanity’ have different meanings? Russell think ...
Phraseology and linguistic theory
... Note that this definition docs not distinguish between lexical items and grammatical patterns that co-occur with a lexical item. Also, note that the definition does not commit to a particular level ofgranularity regarding the lexical elements involved: both can involve either all forms of a lemma or ...
... Note that this definition docs not distinguish between lexical items and grammatical patterns that co-occur with a lexical item. Also, note that the definition does not commit to a particular level ofgranularity regarding the lexical elements involved: both can involve either all forms of a lemma or ...
The Russian agentive passive construction with Agent–Verb
... ascribe to it a basic spatial meaning. This paper is a preliminary report of an ongoing study attempting a semantic analysis of Croatian po- in terms of Langacker’s (e.g., 1987) theory of Cognitive Grammar. In particular it attempts to answer the following questions: (1) What meanings does po- syste ...
... ascribe to it a basic spatial meaning. This paper is a preliminary report of an ongoing study attempting a semantic analysis of Croatian po- in terms of Langacker’s (e.g., 1987) theory of Cognitive Grammar. In particular it attempts to answer the following questions: (1) What meanings does po- syste ...
Practical Natural Language Processing
... • Segment - clause, complete sentence, group of consecutive sentences. Discourses are composed of segments. • Coherence relation - each segment in a discourse is related to a previous segment and determines the role of each segment in the discourse. • The hearer must discern the relations of segment ...
... • Segment - clause, complete sentence, group of consecutive sentences. Discourses are composed of segments. • Coherence relation - each segment in a discourse is related to a previous segment and determines the role of each segment in the discourse. • The hearer must discern the relations of segment ...
Musicolinguistics – from a Neologism to an
... the methodological framework of cognitive science and generative linguistics, which originated in the United States in mid seventies, and still has major proponents today. Through history, the comparison of language and music has been most common in philosophical discussions, where the usual stumbli ...
... the methodological framework of cognitive science and generative linguistics, which originated in the United States in mid seventies, and still has major proponents today. Through history, the comparison of language and music has been most common in philosophical discussions, where the usual stumbli ...
Sentences: Techniques and Purposes
... "It came boring out of the east, like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light o f the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right o f way and sucking it ...
... "It came boring out of the east, like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light o f the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right o f way and sucking it ...
The (re-)emergence of representationalism in semantics Ruth Kempson
... The Chomskian break-through in the exploration of grammars of natural language came from extending the methodology of grammar-writing for the familiar logics of propositional and predicate calculus to natural language. In these “formal languages”, constructed to enable formal modelling of logical re ...
... The Chomskian break-through in the exploration of grammars of natural language came from extending the methodology of grammar-writing for the familiar logics of propositional and predicate calculus to natural language. In these “formal languages”, constructed to enable formal modelling of logical re ...
Writing Style
... Evident in the last section, using the active voice can change the meaning of a sentence. In some disciplines, it is not appropriate to use first person pronouns in academic writing (some people feel it takes away from the objectivity of the study). Thus, the active voice may not always be a quick f ...
... Evident in the last section, using the active voice can change the meaning of a sentence. In some disciplines, it is not appropriate to use first person pronouns in academic writing (some people feel it takes away from the objectivity of the study). Thus, the active voice may not always be a quick f ...
Categorial Grammar – Introduction
... A categorial grammar, in contrast, does not include a separate collection of word-combining rules. Rather, the lexical categories of words such as verbs and adjectives constitute functions that determine how these words can combine with other categories. For example, a lexical item such as ‘nice,’ a ...
... A categorial grammar, in contrast, does not include a separate collection of word-combining rules. Rather, the lexical categories of words such as verbs and adjectives constitute functions that determine how these words can combine with other categories. For example, a lexical item such as ‘nice,’ a ...