1. Metalanguage Revision English language year 12 2011

2. List as many prosodics as you can and define them.

3. Intonation, pitch, rhythm, loudness, tempo, stress, pausing, voice quality.

4. List as many paralinguistic features as you can.

5. Facial expression, body gesture, eye gaze.

6. Identify each of these features It was really g-, awesome. It was really really awesome. That is really awesome. It was … really awesome. It was, that was really awesome.

7. Identify each of these features It was really g-, awesome - Repair It was really really awesome - Repetition That is really awesome - Ellipsis It was … really awesome - Pause It was, that was really awesome - False start

8. Give examples for each of these. Adjacency pair Overlap Interrogative tag Collocation

9. List and give examples of semantic stylistic features

10. Irony, metaphor, oxymoron, simile, personification, pun, idiom

11. What category includes the following? Diphthong, accent, connected speech processes.

12. What category includes the following? Diphthong, accent, connected speech processes. Phonetics!

13. What words would you associate with morphology?

14. Affix, suffix, prefix, suffixation, root, morpheme, derivation and inflection (past tense and plural)

15. What words would you associate with lexicon?

16. Parts of speech, noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, auxiliary, conjunction (subordinating, coordinating), determiner, function word, content word

17. Keep going, what about syntax?

18. What about syntax? Phrase, clause, sentence, subject, object, complement, adverbial, sentence type (declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamative), sentence structure (simple, complex, compound), passive

19. Now semantics and discourse, I’ll give them to you, but you need to define them. Ellipsis Nominalisation Coordination Subordination Anaphoric Cataphoric Deixis Information Flow End focus End weight Front focus Front weight Semantic field Connotation Denotation Sense relations (synonymy, antonymy)

20. Keep going, define, give examples or find examples of anything you need to practice. This is all going to be usable in the exam, so make sure you are familiar with everything here. Good luck.