English revision

Question 1

Antagonist

Answer 1

The villain of the story

Question 2

Protagonist

Answer 2

The hero of the story

Question 3

Mood

Answer 3

The emotion conveyed in a text

Question 4

Tone

Answer 4

The general attitude of a character or a writer

Question 5

Symbolism / motif

Answer 5

Where an object or person is used to symbolise something wider or other.

Question 6

Motif

Answer 6

A dominant idea of a text. Something that is used to develop a theme. It is revisited throughout a text, regularly.

Question 7

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 7

When the weather reflects a character’s feelings / mood

Question 8

Oxymoron

Answer 8

When two words that have opposite meanings are put together

Question 8

Simile

Answer 8

Comparing two things using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

Comparing two things by saying something IS something else

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

Giving something something human qualities

Question 11

Zoomorphism

Answer 11

Giving something or someone animal qualities

Question 12

Onomatopoeia

Answer 12

When a word sounds like the noise it makes.

Question 13

Repetition

Answer 13

When a word or phrase is repeated.

Question 14

Alliteration

Answer 14

When consecutive words start with the same sound or letter.

Question 15

Sibilance

Answer 15

A specific type of alliteration in which the ‘s’ sound is repeated in words.

Question 16

Assonance

Answer 16

A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is the vowel sound

Question 17

Consonance

Answer 17

A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is a consonant

Question 18

Tricolon

Answer 18

Three adjectives or phrases used in a row.

Question 19

Hyperbole

Answer 19

Exaggerating - making something seem bigger, better or worse than it really is.

Question 20

Anecdote

Answer 20

A short, amusing or interesting story about a real or imagined person

Question 21

Rhetorical Question

Answer 21

A question that does not need an answer

Question 22

Emotive Language

Answer 22

Words that make the reader feel an emotion.

Question 23

Imperative

Answer 23

A command

Question 24

Direct Address

Answer 24

When a writer ‘talks’ directly to the reader. Often relies on using the pronoun ‘you’

Question 25

Enjambment

Answer 25

Enjambment When there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry so you read straight onto the next line

Question 26

Caesura

Answer 26

A break in the middle of a line of poetry caused by punctuation

Question 27

Free Verse

Answer 27

Poetry with no formal structure

Question 28

Rhyming Couplets

Answer 28

In poetry. Where two lines of the same length rhyme and complete a thought.