Language and structure

Question 1

Hyperbole

Answer 1

Exaggeration for effect

Question 2

Litotes

Answer 2

Deliberate understatement for effect (must contain a negative)

Question 3

Sensory lang

Answer 3

Use of vocab to describe the effect on the five senses

Question 4

Register

Answer 4

The ‘tone of voice’ it is written in

Question 5

Repetiton

Answer 5

Repetition of vocab to emphasize certain ideas or words

Question 6

Emotive lang

Answer 6

Vocab designed to inspire strong emotion

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

Repetition of a letter at the start of several words

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

Repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

Repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence

Question 10

Sibilance

Answer 10

Repetition of ‘s’ sounds

Question 11

Humour

Answer 11

Either to emphasize strong emotion or to characterize a protagonist

Question 12

Contrast

Answer 12

Deliberate positioning of two contrasting characters or ideas

Question 13

Antithesis

Answer 13

Presenting two opposing characters or ideas

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

A very condensed contrast

Question 15

Juxtaposition

Answer 15

The positioning of vocab or imagery to have impact

Question 16

Tricolon

Answer 16

Using three adjectives (or other word forms) in a row

Question 17

Listing

Answer 17

Use of listing to emphasize quantity
Syndetic = and
Asyndetic = ,

Question 18

Rhetorical question

Answer 18

Asking a question which does not require an answer (anger or frustration)

Question 19

Allusion

Answer 19

Referring obliquely to an idea or theme which is not explicitly mentioned

Question 20

Puns

Answer 20

Wordplay for comedic effect

Question 21

Superlatives

Answer 21

Comparative descriptors

Question 22

Anaphora

Answer 22

Using the same starting clause in close proximity

Question 23

Euphemism

Answer 23

Substituting a harsh expression with a much milder one

Question 24

Anthropormorphism

Answer 24

Attributing a human characteristic to an object or animal (they become human)

Question 25

Apostrophe

Answer 25

When an author speaks to either an object or a person who is not present

Question 26

Dialect

Answer 26

Writing in speech patterns of a particular accent

Question 27

Enjambement

Answer 27

In poetry when one sentence runs over two lines

Question 28

Caesura

Answer 28

A rhythmic break in a poetical line

Question 29

Internal rhyme

Answer 29

In poetry when two words in the same line rhyme

Question 30

Foreshadowing

Answer 30

Giving a clue to what happens later in the book

Question 31

Flashback

Answer 31

Looking back to a incident which happened earlier

Question 32

In media res

Answer 32

Starting in the middle of a story

Question 33

Incomplete sentances

Answer 33

Broken or incomplete sentences usually without a verb

Question 34

Imperative verbs

Answer 34

A demand or instruction

Question 35

Irony

Answer 35

A deliberate gap between what is meant and what is said

Question 36

Dramatic irony

Answer 36

When an audience knows something a character does not

Question 37

Linear narrative

Answer 37

The story is told in chronological order

Question 38

Non-linear narrative

Answer 38

When the story jumps around in time and point-of-view

Question 39

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 39

The attribution of human characteristics to an object or force (weather)

Question 40

Zoomorphism

Answer 40

Giving animal characteristics to a human or object

Question 41

Synecdoche

Answer 41

Using a part of something to represent the whole

Question 42

Metonymy

Answer 42

Representing something by using a closely related object

Question 43

Parody

Answer 43

Copying the distinctive style of a writer/artist/genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

Question 44

Connotation

Answer 44

An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person

Question 45

Polyptoton

Answer 45

Repetition but with different word forms