Feature Spotting
Feature spotting is a BAD thing to do in your essays. It's when you pick out the devices or terminology that you can find in a text without analysing …
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Contraction
A contraction is a type of abbreviation that skips letters in a word or phrase to create a single, shorter word. It will usually use an apostrophe to …
Initialism
An initialism is a type of abbreviation where you combine the first letters of each word in a sentence or phrase. It looks like a new word, but you pr…
Acronym
An acronym is a type of abbreviation where you make a word from a phrase or sentence. You make this word by taking the first letter of each word in th…
Abbreviation
An abbreviation is a shorter version of a word or phrase.
Text Producer
A text producer is the person (or people) who creates the text. They use the tools at their disposal to make something that other people can interpret…
Text Receiver
The text receiver is the person (or people) who reads, watches or listens to the text. They rely on the cues and devices in the text to help them inte…
Text
In literary theory, a text is anything that we can use to communicate information, messages, stories, ideas and feelings. It can be consumed, analysed…