English techniques

Question 1

adverbial

Answer 1

contributes additional information to the main clause.

eg. ‘Tom felt tired because he had run a marathon.’

Question 2

allegory

Answer 2

A story in prose fiction, poetry, drama or visual language that has more than one level of meaning.

Question 3

apposition

Answer 3

When one noun group immediately follows another with the same reference, they are said to be in apposition, for example ‘our neighbour, Mr Grasso …’, ‘Canberra, the capital of Australia …’.

Question 4

collocation

Answer 4

Words that commonly occur in close association with one another (for example, ‘blonde’ goes with ‘hair’, ‘butter’ is ‘rancid’ not ‘rotten’, ‘salt and pepper’ not ‘pepper
and salt’).