DUFFY - linguistic features toolkit

Question 1

How is poetic voice shown?

Answer 1

• 1st or 3rd person narrator
• Narrative viewpoint
• Narrative mood
• Narrative perspective (past/present)

Question 2

How is fore grounding shown?

Answer 2

• Through deviation
• Through repetition
• Through attention-resonance model

Question 3

How are lexical features shown?

Answer 3

• Verbs
• Semantic fields
• Metaphors and similes
• Pronouns
• Use of the senses.

Question 4

How is phonology shown?

Answer 4

• Consonant and vowel sound
• Plosives, fricatives and sibilants
• Sound iconicity
• Diphthongs
• Assonance
• Lexical and non-lexical onomatopoeia.

Question 5

How is deixis shown?

Answer 5

• Temporal
• Spacial
• Person

Question 6

How is modality shown?

Answer 6

• Epistemic
• Boulemaic
• Deontic

Question 7

How are grammatical features shown?

Answer 7

• Sentence functions (interrogative, declarative, imperative, exclamatory, modifiers)
• Modifiers
• Verb tenses and shifts of tense.
• Noun phrases.

Question 8

How are structural features shown?

Answer 8

• Stanza form (length)
• Rhyme
• Line length