{"id":30172,"date":"2017-05-12T03:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=30172"},"modified":"2017-05-11T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T09:45:50","slug":"word-techniques-game-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/word-techniques-game-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Techniques Game Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/words_at_work.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Word Techniques Game Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/words_at_work.jpg\" title=\"Word Techniques Game Primer Tutorial\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Word Techniques Game Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve based a new <a target=_blank title='English as a Second Language information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_as_a_second_or_foreign_language'>ESL<\/a> word game we want to call &#8220;Match Word Techniques Game&#8221;, designed for very advanced English students (even native speakers, perhaps) on a previous &#8220;one to many&#8221; arrangement, where &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the &#8220;one&#8221; is a phrase or sentence exemplifying &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>the &#8220;many&#8221; is a word technique or more than one<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; like we designed with our ESL word game described in <a target=_blank title='HTML\/Javascript Jobs Match Game Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/htmljavascript-jobs-match-game-tutorial\/'>HTML\/Javascript Jobs Match Game Tutorial<\/a>.  It&#8217;s &#8220;many&#8221; checkbox and &#8220;one&#8221; select element design still holds true today.<\/p>\n<p>What do we mean by &#8220;Word Techniques&#8221;?  That is where we&#8217;d like to thank our inspirational resource, the book <i>Text Types in English<\/i> by Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson (ISBN: 0-7329-4584-4) (p. 72-74) lists the following word techniques that can occur in English phrases and\/or sentences (appearing in the select element &#8220;dropdown&#8221;) &#8230;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Word Technique<\/th>\n<th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>alliteration<\/td>\n<td>the use of the same letter or sound in two or more words that are close together. It is indicated by repeated consonants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>antonym<\/td>\n<td>a word that has the opposite meaning to another<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>assonance<\/td>\n<td>the use of the same letter or sound in words that are close together. It is indicated by repeated vowels or vowel sounds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>compound word<\/td>\n<td>a word made up by putting two or more existing words together<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>colloquialism<\/td>\n<td>a word used in everyday writing or speech, as opposed to formal or literary texts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ephemism<\/td>\n<td>a word or phrase used to communicate an idea in a polite or less direct way<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>gerund<\/td>\n<td>a verb that functions as a noun<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>homonym<\/td>\n<td>a word with the same spelling as another, but with a different meaning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>homophone<\/td>\n<td>a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>jargon<\/td>\n<td>the use of words that are particular to a specific subject or occupation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>neologism<\/td>\n<td>a new word or expression in a language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>onomatopoeia<\/td>\n<td>the use of words that sound like the action they represent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>palindrome<\/td>\n<td>a word or phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>personification<\/td>\n<td>the use of words, usually verbs, that are associated with people to describe non-human things<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>pun<\/td>\n<td>the use of one word to suggest different meanings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>rhyme<\/td>\n<td>the sound of two or more words matching<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>slang<\/td>\n<td>words that are not accepted in &#8216;formal&#8217; English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>solecism<\/td>\n<td>the mispronunciation of a word that relates to technical language, or jargon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>synonym<\/td>\n<td>a word that has a similar meaning to another<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As you can see with many word technique concepts above, some of the answers will need advanced English skills, which you can try with today&#8217;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/words_at_work.html\" title='Click picture'>live run<\/a> link, the HTML and Javascript code for which you can download <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/words_at_work.html-GETME\" title='words_at_work.html'>words_at_work.html<\/a> and see how it was arrived at via <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/Geographicals\/diff.php?one=http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/words_at_work.html-GETME\" title='words_at_work.html'>this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d30172' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d30172\"); 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