INTRODUCTION
Click here for a link to a table of core analytical terms covering all analytical frameworks.
Click here for a link to a glossary of analytical terms, definitions and examples
CORE SPOKEN LANGUAGE TERMS
CORE LANGUAGE TERMS
GRAMMAR
Identify verbs, nouns and adjectives.
Refer to proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns
Refer to verbs and adverbs
Refer to adjectives - pre / post modifying, comparative and superlative
LEXIS
Refer to denotation and connotation
Refer to low frequency and high frequency lexis
Refer to monosyllabic and polysyllabic lexis
Refer to lexical fields
REGISTER
Refer to informal and formal registers
SYNTAX
Refer to simple, compound and complex sentences.
Refer to declaratives, interrogatives, imperatives and exclamatives
CORE LITERATURE TERMS
Imagery - metaphor, simile, personification, symbolism, pathetic fallacy,
CORE POETRY TERMS
Refer to form - stanza, metre, free verse, sonnet, quatrain
Refer to
CORE RHETORICAL TERMS
CORE WRITING STYLES
Refer to descriptive and reflective writing.
Refer to dialogue.
Refer to action writing.
