Aural/Oral Techniques

Question 1

Dramatic pause

Answer 1

Causes tension gives indication that something important is about to happen

Question 2

Emphasis

Answer 2

Reinforces / emphasizes ideas feelings or motifs in the text

Question 3

Tone

Answer 3

Expresses feeling / atmosphere

EG melancholic angry excited anxious inspired uplifted

Question 4

Imperatives

Answer 4

To give direct orders symbolising strength or power

Question 5

Inflection

Answer 5

Voice modulation that indicates a question or tension

Question 6

Register

Answer 6

The level of formality or informality of the dialogue

Question 7

Sound

Answer 7

Diegetic = sound that exists within the story / source can be seen

Non-diegetic = off stage noise or sound from which the source cannot be seen

Question 8

Score

Answer 8

Music that adds atmosphere or motion to the spoken words

Question 9

Volume

Answer 9

Affects perception of characters / events

Loud : power authority Anger inspiration excitement

Soft: reverence poignancy seriousness suspense submission

Question 10

Pace/tempo

Answer 10

The pace at which the dialogue is delivered

Fast: urgency importance panic hysteria excitement

Slow: relaxed passive peaceful foreboding imminent danger

Question 11

Truncated sentence

Answer 11

A sentence that is started but not finished symbolising urgency or desperation

Question 12

Interjection

Answer 12

voices crossing over layering text and sound creating feeling and poignancycy

is used in Macbeth to symbolise Macbeth and lady macbeth’s connection and relationship

Question 13

Assonance

Answer 13

Resemblance in the sounds of the words / syllables either between the vowels or between the consonants

Question 14

Accent

Answer 14

A stressed word or syllable also similar to emphasis

Question 15

Consonance

Answer 15

Repetition of identical or similar sounding consonants

Question 16

Euphony

Answer 16

Aesthetic or pleasing to the ear

Question 17

Meter

Answer 17

A unit of rhythm in poetry or the pattern of the beats

Question 18

Onomatopoeia

Answer 18

A word that is formed from the sound associated with what is named

Example: Bang crash boom

Question 19

Repetiton

Answer 19

A word or phrase given multiple times to emphasize or convince the audience of a point

Question 20

Rhyme

Answer 20

Correspondence of sound twin words or the ending of words especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

Question 21

Rhythm

Answer 21

the beat or the pace of a poem it’s created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse it can help to strengthen the meaning of words and ideas in a poem

Question 22

Sibalence

Answer 22

when a repeated consonant sound is either s, sh, z any other recognised filament sound sibilance occurs when the repetition of these specific continents are in close proximity

Question 23

Prosody

Answer 23

The patterns of rhythm & sound used in poetry