Language Devices

Question 1

What is Pathetic Fallacy?

Answer 1

Using the weather/ atmosphere (e.g. dark night- evil and nasty atmosphere) to describe the mood

Question 2

What is Personification?

Answer 2

A non-human given human qualities
e.g. the pen sat on the table

Question 3

What is a Simile?

Answer 3

Comparing two things using like or as
e.g. we ate like a pack of hyenas

Question 4

What is a Metaphor?

Answer 4

Comparing two thins using is or are
e.g. they are dragons

Question 5

What is an Extended Metaphor?

Answer 5

A metaphor that has been developed in great detail
- basically an explained metaphor
e.g. life is a rollercoaster, you can never prepare for the ups and downs it brings

Question 6

What is an Oxymoron?

Answer 6

Having two opposite words side-by-side
e.g. soft diamond

Question 7

What is Juxtaposition?

Answer 7

Two opposing ideas
- kind of an explained oxymoron
e.g.

Question 8

What is Symbolism?

Answer 8

When an object is used to present meaning
e.g. dagger = death

Question 9

What is Semantic Field?

Answer 9

When words across an extract can be linked to one idea
e.g. spells, staff, magic, pointy hat - wizard

Question 10

What is Irony?

Answer 10

An expression in text which signifies opposite meaning
- something unexpected

Question 11

What is a Rhetorical Question?

Answer 11

A question that does not require an answer
e.g. Have you gotten a 9 in English yet?

Question 12

What is a Hyperbole?

Answer 12

When you overexaggerate something
e.g. If I get another 6 I will fling myself off of that weird tower worth the coastal defences

Question 13

What is Assonance?

Answer 13

Repetition of a vowel sound
e.g. I am tOO cOOl fOr schOOl

Question 14

What is Alliteration?

Answer 14

When words in a row begin with the same letter
e.g. a giant green gnome

Question 15

What is Sibilance

Answer 15

When words in a row begin with ‘s’ or have an ‘s’ sound
e.g. She waS Slowly hiSSing

Question 16

What is a Euphemism?

Answer 16

When you say something in an indirect manner
- implying something without actually saying it
e.g. I need to drop the kids off at the pool

Question 17

What is Emotive Language?

Answer 17

When the writer makes the reader feel emotion

Question 18

What is Onomatopoeia?

Answer 18

When words describe a sound
e.g. zoom, whoosh, cracking

Question 19

What is Rule of three (triplets)?

Answer 19

When 3 words or phrases in a row describe something
e.g. it stopped, turned and stared

Question 20

What are Facts/ Stats?

Answer 20

Evidence to support a statement
e.g. Giant covalent structures have higher melting and boiling points because the contain a larger number of intermolecular forces, thus requiring more heat to break them to change state
- used for persuasion

Question 21

What are Plosives?

Answer 21

The repetition of a harsh sound
e.g. p, k, d, t

Question 22

What is Zoomorphism?

Answer 22

When a person is given animalistic features
e.g. my sister barked at me

Question 23

What is an Opinion?

Answer 23

A biased statement
e.g. I think I should stop procrastinating

Question 24

What is Repetition?

Answer 24

When the writer repeats a word/ phrase for effect
e.g.

Question 25

What are the other 4?

Answer 25

Nouns - objects
Adjectives - describing nouns
Verbs - doing word
Adverbs - describing verbs