English Word Techniques

Question 1

Irony

Answer 1

Use of words or phrases that are often sarcastic and humorus.

Question 2

Sibilance

Answer 2

Sounded with a hissing effect, for example s, sh

Question 3

Plosives

Answer 3

Hard explosive sounds: p t k b g d

Question 4

Fricatives

Answer 4

Soft, breathy sounds: s z th f

Question 5

Pivot

Answer 5

Point at which a poem changes mood time etc.

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

To give inanimate objects human characteristics

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

When vowel sounds with in the words are the same or very similar

Question 8

Lexical set

Answer 8

A group of words with the same topic, function or form.

Question 9

Onomatopoeia

Answer 9

Words that sound the sameas what they represent

Question 10

Archaisms

Answer 10

Words that are very old fashioned

Question 11

Juxtaposition

Answer 11

Two things being seen or placed closed together with contrasting effect

Question 12

Superlative

Answer 12

Expressing the highest or a very high degree of quality

Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

To describe somthing ‘as’ or ‘like’ something else

Question 14

Alliteration

Answer 14

The use of the same letter at the beginning of words that are close

Question 15

Repetition

Answer 15

To use the same word/phrase more than once

Question 16

Metaphor

Answer 16

Comparing two things by saying they are each other

Question 17

Enjambment

Answer 17

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyoned the end of a line

Question 18

Rhythm

Answer 18

This describes the beat of a poem

Question 19

Rhyme

Answer 19

When limes of poetry end with the same sounds

Question 20

Stanza

Answer 20

Groups of lines in a poem (a verse)