Lexis
- Genre - Set of conventions that govern the way particular texts are written for.
- Language - Method of human communication, can be spoken or written, consists of using words in a sequence.
- Literature - works of language, the likes in the beauty or emotional effect.
- Prose - the best words.
- Drama - literature that is acted and spoken aloud.
- Poetry -the words used in a sequence or order.
- Grammar - the rules of English.
- Context - time and places.
- Syntax - order of words.
- Lucid - clear.
- Literary Technique - the skills used in writing e.g. a metaphor.
- Protagonists - main character.
- Picaresque - main protagonists are bad in the lovable way
- Canon of English Literature - a list of canonical books which are important to society.
Lexis from 'The Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift
- Melancholy - synonym of sad.
- Alms - Money that is given to beggers.
- Dam - Ambiguous for womb.
- Salable commodity - selling the children at a certain age, in this context, 12 years old.
- Papists - Catholics.
- Thrifty - careful with money.
- Clergyman - an ordained christian minister.
- Satirist - someone who writes satires, where they use irony, sarcasm and ridicule to exaggerate a point or an issue.
- Ordained - to enact or establish by law.
Lexis from 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger
- Ostracized - to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation and privileges.
- Hemorrhages - a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel.
- Mid-terms - american naming for exams
- Chiffonier - a chest of drawers or bureau, usually consists with a mirror on top
- Horsing - slang to act boisterously, as a part or a scene to play.
- Psychoanalyzed - to be investigated or treated with psychoanalysis
- Birds - slang for girls.
- Idiosyncratic - your own personal style of talking and saying everything
- Idiolect - a type of language specific to you
- Colloquial - informal language or slang
- Versimilitude - an attempt to make something realistic
- Undertaking - deading with dead bodies
- Stiffs - slang for dead bodies
- Foils - fencing equipment
- Digress - to move away
- Sadist - shown when someone enjoys getting pleasure by putting others through pain
- Hyperbole - exageration for effect
- Concieted - to think too much of themselves
- Can - bathroom
- Chewed the rag - to chat
- Creek - a term which is park of a saying 'up the creek without a paddle' a polite term to say that you are in S*ht
- Half nelson - wrestling move
- Brown betty - a pudding
- Leukemia - cancer of the blood.
- Unscrupulous - means to have no morals
- Linoleum - a plastic covering
- Bawling - crying alot
- Canasta - a type of card game
- Snowing - a metaphor to mean to shower compliments
- Highballs - an alcoholic drink which creates foam
- Incognitio - in hiding
- Matinee - an afthernoon film
- Dope - idiot
- Janitor - cleaner