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Study Guide: History of the English Language Final Exam

purism
Briticism
slang
dialect

denotation vs. connotation


calque
clang association
vogue word
euphemism
amelioration vs. pejoration
concretion vs. abstraction
generalization vs. specialization
metaphor
metonymy
synecdoche
synesthesia

root creation
clipped form
apheresis
onomatopeia
ejaculation
functional shift
commonization
eponym
compound word
amalgamated compound
affixing
alphabetism
acronym
blending/portmanteau
folk etymology
back-formation

loanword
hybrid form
Norman French vs. Central French

historical, social, and syntactical context

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