English Techniques

Question 1

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 1

Weather or atmosphere describes the mood
Example if it’s sunny people are gonna be happy

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

Non human is given human features

Example Pen was sitting one the table

Question 3

Simile

Answer 3

Compare two things using like OR as
Example He was as strong as a ox

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

Compare 2 things with is OR are
example she is a monster, you are a monster

Question 5

Extended metaphor

Answer 5

Pick a metaphor explain how and then turn it into a long metaphor
Example of metaphor life is a rollercoaster metaphor
Example of extended metaphor Life is a rollercoaster you can never prepare for the ups and downs it will bring at the greatest heights you will be at greatest heights and at times it will crash but every day is never the same just the way every turn on a rollercoaster is never the same

Question 6

Oxymoron

Answer 6

Is when you have two opposite words side by side
Example small giant

Question 7

Juxtaposition

Answer 7

Is when you have opposite ideas
Get a oxymoron and example how
Example small giant was tiptoeing trying to reach the top shelf

Question 8

Symbolism

Answer 8

Is when objects are linked and present
Example if I wear a face mask you Would think it’s COVID 

Question 9

Semantic field

Answer 9

Is when words across and extract can be linked to 1 idea
Example ring gloves punch referee link to the idea of boxing

Question 10

Irony

Answer 10

Is when event in the text itself even surprises the characters
Example in inspector calls mr burling said I’d give thousands yes thousands this is irony cuz you never would of expected him to offer money

Question 11

Rhetorical question

Answer 11

Question in a piece of writing that doesn’t need an answer

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

When you over exaggerate
Example so angry I’m going to kill him

Question 13

Assonance

Answer 13

Is the the repetition of the vowel sound
Example light the fire there’s a I in light and in fire

Question 14

Alliteration

Answer 14

When words in the same row beginning of the same lesson
Example big blue ball bounced down the hill

Question 15

Sibilance

Answer 15

Is when words in the same row begin with the letter S or have a s sound
Example the snake was slowly hissing

Question 16

Emotive language

Answer 16

Is when the writer makes the reader feel a particularly emotion

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

Is when words describe sounds
Example crack bang boom

Question 18

Rule of three

Answer 18

Words of phrases in a row to describe something
Example this table is black with four legs and quite hard

Question 19

Zoomorphism

Answer 19

When you give a human animal features
Example John barked at me means John shouted at me

Question 20

Repetition

Answer 20

Is when the writer describes a word or phrase for effect 

Question 21

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

Answer 21

Nouns are naming words
Adjectives which are describing words
Verbs which are doing words
Adverb which are words that describe the verb