Essential Linguistic Concepts and Rhetorical Devices
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Linguistic Fundamentals
The hyphen is used to indicate the end of a word of more than one syllable that must be divided at the end of a line.
Toponymy is the branch of linguistics that studies place names.
A semantic field is a set of words in the same grammatical category, related by their meaning.
The invariable preposition is a word that functions to relate other words or groups of words.
The standard language is the linguistic variety that serves as a means of communication between speakers of a language community in formal areas.
Anthroponymy studies the origin and meaning of personal names.
Rhetorical Resources in Poetry
Rhetorical resources are ways of playing with words used by poets to add beauty to the language:
- Comparació: Used to describe something that has similarity with another.
- Metàfora: Involves substituting one thing for another with similar characteristics.
- Personificació: Consists of attributing human characteristics to animals or objects.
- Antítesi: Involves contrasting two conflicting ideas.
- Sinestèsia: Associated with a characteristic element of the senses.
- Hiperbaton: Changing the order of the sentence (subject, verb, complements).
- Anàfora: Repeating a word or words at the beginning of two or more lines.
- Alliteration: Exaggerated repetition of a consonant sound.
Phrase Structure
A phrase is a word or set of words that make sense and are structured around a core:
- Nominals: The car, the motorcycle
- Verbals: Write, read, walk
- Adjectivals: High fat, very small
- Adverbials: Good, bad, soon, later
- Prepositionals: Sineu, wooden, with him