AO2- Language analysis terms

Question 1

Syntactical units

Answer 1

Full stops within poems to stop and start sentences

Effect- stands on its own- more powerful

Question 2

Cesuras

Answer 2

Stop and start- grammar within the centre of a sentence

Effect- Creates dramatic pauses, breaks the flow

Question 3

Enjambement

Answer 3

The flow of poetic lines onto another

Effect- creates a lyrical and poetic atmosphere- reflects a stream of thoughts/romance etc

Question 4

Prose

Answer 4

Sentences with no structure or rhythm

Effect - usually used to show the lower class

Question 5

Verse/Blank Verse/Iambic pentameter

Answer 5

Sentences with a rhythm and set structure ( shorter sentences)

Effect- usually used to voice the upper class to show sophistication and education

Question 6

Rhyming couplet

Answer 6

When the last word of two iambic pentameters rhyme to end the sentence

Effect- Usually creates a powerful effect and allows the final line to resonate within the readers mind

Question 7

Proleptic irony

Answer 7

An earlier event will foreshadow/give the audience a clue of whats to come

Question 8

Dramatic Irony

Answer 8

when the audience knows of something prior to it being spoken of on stage

Question 9

Structure

Answer 9

the placement of things and the extract itself - what comes where and why it comes there and what impact such passage has/relevance in the context of the play as a whole

Question 10

Form

Answer 10

The type of text you read/study - BE AWARE, TWELFTH NIGHT WILL HAVE BEEN PERFORMED- IT’S FORM WILL HAVE TO BE ANALYSED AS SPEECH AND DRAMA!

Is it prose/drama or poetry? the effect of the form of language chosen is…

Analyse stage directions/tone of speech