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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 what the text producer is doing.
Flouting a maxim is when you break one of Grice's Maxims on purpose. You want the other people in the conversation to notice that you've done it and interpret a hidden message in your words.
Variations:
flouting the maxim
flouts a maxim
flouts the maxim
maxim was flouted
maxim is flouted
flout a maxim
In English, foregrounding theory is when writers draw attention to parts of their text using language. It is a stylistic term connecting literature and linguistics.
Variations:
foregrounds
foregrounded
foreground
Free direct speech is a type of speech presentation that indicates you are repeating the actual words of another person. You do this by surrounding the speech in punctuation (usually speech marks or inverted commas), but you do not use a reporting clause.
Abbreviations:
FDS
