Important techniques

Question 1

Anagnorisis

Answer 1

Moment of reveal where main characters come to a complete understanding of their own circumstances and what they are seeing

Question 2

Satire

Answer 2

The use of humour, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and critique people’s stupidity (particularly in context of contemporary politics or other topical issues)

Question 3

Moral desert

Answer 3

Getting what you deserve

Question 4

Iam

Answer 4

The stresses of the syllables

Question 5

Free verse

Answer 5

No rhyme, no metre

Question 6

Blank verse

Answer 6

No rhyme, but metre

Question 7

Spondee

Answer 7

Two stresses

Question 8

Half-rhyme

Answer 8

Half repeated sound

Question 9

Complete/ full rhyme

Answer 9

Repeated sound

Question 10

No rhyme

Answer 10

No repetition of sound

Question 11

Sibilence

Answer 11

‘S’ sound

Question 12

Declarative

Answer 12

Making a statement

Question 13

Imperative

Answer 13

Demand/ telling someone to do something

Question 14

Exclamatory

Answer 14

Exclaiming something (importance)

Question 15

Interrogative

Answer 15

Questioning

Question 16

Anaphora

Answer 16

Repetition of first part/ couple words

Question 17

Volta

Answer 17

Change in tone/ turning point

Question 18

Dental alliteration

Answer 18

‘d’ alliteration

Question 19

Enjambment

Answer 19

No pause/ break between lines

Question 20

Asyndeton

Answer 20

Repetition of commas

Question 21

Flippart

Answer 21

Disrespectful

Question 21

Polysyndeton

Answer 21

Repetition of ‘and’

Question 22

Caesura

Answer 22

A pause in a poem

Question 22

Consonance alliteration

Answer 22

Consonant alliteration

Question 22

Elegy poem

Answer 22

Dedicated to someone who has died

Question 23

Bathos

Answer 23

Anti-climatic finish

Question 24

Conversation poem

Answer 24

Sounds like a conversation

Question 24

Omnipresent

Answer 24

God-like force

Question 24

Apathetic

Answer 24

Shows/feels no emotion

Question 25

Refrain

Answer 25

Repeated line through poem

Question 26

Hubris

Answer 26

Fatal flaw of pride

Question 27

Soliloquey

Answer 27

When a character speaks about thoughts in their heads out loud when no one can hear them

Question 28

The great chain of being

Answer 28

The order of living beings, God -> Animals

Question 29

Malapropism

Answer 29

Mistaken use of a word for a familiar sounding word, creates comedic effect

Question 30

Farce

Answer 30

A play that creates ridiculous and absurd situations, intended for comedic effect

Question 31

Natural imagery

Answer 31

Using animals, landscapes and plants to create an atmosphere and scene