Language features Tom & Josh by Josh Griffiths https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2018-03-22 10:13:54 UTC 2025-12-11 18:57:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png Alliteration h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908000 2018-03-22 10:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908000 Adjective h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908358 2018-03-22 10:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908358 Cliche h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908468 2018-03-22 10:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908468 Bias h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908641 cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something.
"readers said the paper was biased towards the Conservatives"
]]> 2018-03-22 10:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908641 Formal h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908706 2018-03-22 10:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908706 Instructive h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908786 2018-03-22 10:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908786 Oxymoron h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908864 2018-03-22 10:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908864 Rhetorical Question h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908907 2018-03-22 10:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244908907 euphemism h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909041  
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
"the jargon has given us ‘downsizing’ as a euphemism for cuts" 
]]> 2018-03-22 10:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909041 Adverb h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909122 2018-03-22 10:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909122 Emotive h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909168 2018-03-22 10:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909168 Idiom h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909209 2018-03-22 10:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909209 Jargon h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909274 2018-03-22 10:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909274 Proper nouns h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909331 2018-03-22 10:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909331 tone h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909382  
the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

"trust her to lower the tone of the conversation" 
]]> 2018-03-22 10:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909382 simile h17041 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909418 2018-03-22 10:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909418 informal h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909650 denoting the grammatical structures, vocabulary, and idiom suitable to everyday language and conversation rather than to official or formal contexts.]]> 2018-03-22 10:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909650 exaggeration h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909956 a statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is.]]> 2018-03-22 10:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244909956 metaphor h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910318 a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.]]> 2018-03-22 10:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910318 onomatopoeia h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910543 the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.]]> 2018-03-22 10:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910543 quotation h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910762 a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.]]> 2018-03-22 10:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910762 repetition h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910918 something that is repeated in a sentence.]]> 2018-03-22 10:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244910918 statistics h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244911075 he practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.]]> 2018-03-22 10:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244911075 verb h17079 https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244911212 a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.]]> 2018-03-22 10:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/h17041/Bookmarks/wish/244911212