Patterns in Language

Patterns in Language

I. FRAMES OF LANGUAGE                   

A. verbal  

B. tonal  

C. Physical/kinetic  

II. PATTERNS OF VOICE

A. Tone of voice

1. Intonational frame

2. "Mystique"   of tone

a. attitude  

b. mood  

c. mode  

d. style  

B. Direct Address

1. Speaker/Listener writer/reader symmetry  

2. Point of view  

a. character  

b. role   playing

III. PATTERNS OF REPETITION 

A. rhythm  

1. prosody  

2. Literary usage

a. mode

  i. mime  

 ii. Prose  : words spoken

               

iii. Song  :  words sung

                      iv. Epos  :  words chanted

b. tone

  i. irony  

 ii. satire  

iii. wit  

iv. paradox  

3. Repetitive sound patterns

a. rhyme also rime  

b. alliteration  

               B. Vocabulary or lexicon  

                 1. Lexical devices

                   a. Diction   or word choice

                   b. usage  

                   c. idiom  

               C. syntax  

                 1. Syntactical devices

                   a. Basic statement patterns

                   b. Varieties of sentence   structure

                   c. clause   and combinations

                   d. Coordination

                   e. Parallelism

                   f. Juxtaposition

                   g. Emphasis

                   h. Subordination

                   i. Modification

                   j. Reference

                   k. Incomplete or noncomplete construction

               D. Rhetoric

                 1. Rhetorical devices

                   a. Definition

                   b. Classification

                   c. Exemplification

                   d. Comparison

                   e. Causal analysis (cause and effect)

                   f. Process analysis

                   g. Detailing

                   h. Illustration

                   i. Organization

                     i. chronological  

                    ii. spatial  

                   iii. logical  

                       (a). inductive  

                       (b). deduction  

            IV. PATTERNS OF MEANING

               A. Multiple meaning

                 1. Horizontal ambiguity 

                   a. verbal pluralism

                 2. Vertical ambiguity

                   a. abstractive  /concretive 

               B. Notational meaning

                 1. denote  

                 2. connotation  

                 3. majority, group meanings

                 4. minority, individual meanings

               C. etymology  

                 1. Meaning of verbal signs

                   a. historically

                   b. contextually

                   c. culturally

               D. Neologisms

                 1. focus on productivity of language through

                   a. "word coinage" or naming

             V. PATTERNS OF FIGURES

               A. trope  

                 2. analogy  

               B. metaphor  

                 1. Relational analysis

                   a. Simple/Directional relations A:B

                   b. Reciprocal/mutual relations A:B B:A

                   c. Wheel/Simultaneous relations AB

                 2. Rhetorical  analysis

                   a. Explosive

                      "in,small,qualitative" to "out,large, quantitative"

                   b. Implosive

                      "out, large, quantitative" to "in, small, qualitative"

                   c. Pulse

                      combination of explosive and implosive

               C. Images

                 1. Presentation to the senses

                   a. visual  

                   b. auditory  

                   c. kinetic (see above)

                   d. gustatory  

                   e. olfactory