english vocabulary

Question 1

stichomythia

Answer 1

dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse, used as a stylistic device in ancient Greek drama -used to comment on plays

Question 2

plosive

Answer 2

hard sounding consonants
t, k, and p (voiceless) and d, g, and b (voiced)

Question 3

paralinguistics

Answer 3

Some examples of paralanguage features include intonation, tempo, volume, pitch, and non-fluency features (such as filler words and sounds, false starts, and hesitation). Also can be movements - usually used in plays

Question 4

antagonist

Answer 4

opposes to protagonist

Question 5

epistolary

Answer 5

written in a letter format

Question 6

colloquial

Answer 6

informal/familiar language

Question 7

personification

Answer 7

the attribution of human characteristic to an inanimate object

Question 8

repetition

Answer 8

the repeat of something

Question 9

emotive language

Answer 9

language that inspires emotion

Question 10

onomatopoeia

Answer 10

a sound

Question 11

alliteration

Answer 11

the same sound appearing in words

Question 12

hyperbole

Answer 12

exaggeration

Question 13

imperative verbs

Answer 13

orders eg do this!

Question 14

inference

Answer 14

a conclusion reached from implicit information

Question 15

form

Answer 15

the type of text eg novel, play, newspaper…

Question 16

linear structure

Answer 16

a story set in a chronological order

Question 17

power of three/tricolon

Answer 17

listing in three for emphasis

Question 18

motif

Answer 18

a recurring image or idea (eg bloof in Macbeth)

Question 19

objective writing

Answer 19

something written without bias or opinions

Question 20

satire

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a style or writing which often mocks people by overexaggerating their flaws (Pride and Prejudice is often satirical)

Question 21

theme

Answer 21

a common idea

Question 22

anastrophe

Answer 22

inversion of the usual order of a sentence

Question 23

asyndeton

Answer 23

omission of conjunctions such as ‘and, or, but’ within a list
—> seen in warming her pearls ‘wear them, warm them’