Key Words

Question 1

Pre-modifier

Answer 1

A word put in front of another word to add more information about it

Question 2

Oxymoron

Answer 2

Opposite meanings linked eg troubled pleasure

Question 3

Auxiliary/modal verbs

Answer 3

Possesses another verb

I CAN go

Question 4

Paradox

Answer 4

An apparent contradiction eg our enemies are often our best friends

Question 5

Bathos

Answer 5

Anti climax

I came, I saw, I ran away

Question 6

Apostrophe

Answer 6

Addressing an inanimate object

Eg is this a dagger I see before me

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

An exaggerated comparison

Eg he was as old as the hills

Question 8

Trimeter

Answer 8

Three feet (6 syllables)

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

Repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds

Question 10

Tetrameter

Answer 10

4 feet (8 Syllables)

Question 11

Deictic

Answer 11

Rely on context to make sense

Eg pass me that there

Question 12

Fricatives

Answer 12

Air escapes through a small passage

Eg F and V

Question 13

Plosives

Answer 13

Release a sudden burst of air

Eg P, B and T

Question 14

Aspirants

Answer 14

Denote audible breath

Eg H

Question 15

Sibilance

Answer 15

Hissing sound

Eg S and Z

Question 16

Dactyl

Answer 16

One stressed two unstressed

Question 17

Anapest

Answer 17

Two unstressed one stressed (syllable)

Question 18

Iambic

Answer 18

1 unstressed and 1 stressed syllable

Question 19

Trochee

Answer 19

One stressed syllable one unstressed
Hughsian
Spell-like

Question 20

Spondee

Answer 20

Two stressed syllables

Question 21

Volta

Answer 21

Turning point in a poem

Usually a sonnet

Question 22

Enjambement

Answer 22

Run-on lines

Question 23

Caesura

Answer 23

A mid-line pause

Question 24

Conceit

Answer 24

A deliberately elaborate metaphor