Extract Terminology

Question 1

What is an Adveribial of Time?

Answer 1

Saying when something happened e.g. today, now, tomorrow etc.

Question 2

What is an Adverbial of Place?

Answer 2

Saying where something happened

Question 3

What is an Adverbial of frequency

Answer 3

Always, sometimes, never etc

Question 4

What is Analepsis?

Answer 4

A flashback to the past

Question 5

What is Anaphora?

Answer 5

A series of sentences or phrases that begin with the same word

Question 6

What is Epiphora?

Answer 6

A series of sentences or phrases that end with the same word

Question 7

What is Authorial Bias?

Answer 7

When an author presents the story in a biased way

Question 8

What is Blasphemous Language?

Answer 8

Words that might be considered ungodly or offensive e.g. christ, hell, goddam ect

Question 9

What is Colloquial Language?

Answer 9

Informal, casual language often found in this novel

Question 10

What are Declaratives?

Answer 10

Statements

Question 11

What is Dialect?

Answer 11

The way in which people speak based on the area they come from

Question 12

What is Direct Speech?

Answer 12

Normal speech within quotation marks

Question 13

What is Dramatic Irony?

Answer 13

When the reader is aware of things that the characters aren’t

Question 14

What is Euphemism?

Answer 14

A polite, understated way of saying something which might otherwise sound inappropriate or blunt

Question 15

What are Expletives?

Answer 15

Swear words

Question 16

What is Factual Style of Writing?

Answer 16

The inclusion of many facts as used by Capote, this adds realism, gives us the feeling that we were there too

Question 17

What is Foregrounding?

Answer 17

When a writer deliberately draws the readers attention to something

Question 18

What is Foreshadowing?

Answer 18

Hinting at events later on in the story

Question 19

What is Free Indirect Speech?

Answer 19

Speech without speech marks, often used to describe a characters thoughts

Question 20

What is an Intensifier?

Answer 20

A word which comes before the noun in a sentence to add more emphasis

Question 21

What are Interrogatives?

Answer 21

Questions

Question 22

What is Intalicised Language?

Answer 22

Anything written in italics, often used for emphasis

Question 23

What is Juxtaposition?

Answer 23

When a writer deliberately placed two characters or events side by side

Question 24

What is a Syndetic List?

Answer 24

A list of items with and before the final one

Question 25

What is a Syndetic Pair?

Answer 25

Two items with and in the middle

Question 26

What is an Asyndetic List?

Answer 26

A list of items without an and before the final one

Question 27

What is a Polysyndetic List?

Answer 27

A list with with conjunctions in between each item in the list

Question 28

What is a Minor Sentence?

Answer 28

A sentence which is not grammatically complete/ a fragment of a sentence

Question 29

What is a Montage?

Answer 29

A mixture/assortment

Question 30

What is New Journalism?

Answer 30

The genre of the his novel

Question 31

What is Non-Standard Grammer?

Answer 31

Capote uses this to try and accurately depict the way the characters talk

Question 32

What is Parenthesis?

Answer 32

Using brackets to include extra information

Question 33

What is Pathetic Fallacy?

Answer 33

When a writer makes the weather reflect the mood of the story

Question 34

What is Pathos?

Answer 34

Appeal to the emotions

Question 35

What is Personification?

Answer 35

Giving human qualities to an inanimate object

Question 36

What is Versimilitude?

Answer 36

When a writer includes small details in order to make the story seem more believable