Language features

Question 1

Antagonist

Answer 1

The villain in a story

Question 2

Protagonist

Answer 2

The hero of the story

Question 3

Mood

Answer 3

The emotion conveyed in a text

Question 4

Tone

Answer 4

The general attitude of a character or a writer

Question 5

Symbolism

Answer 5

Where an object or person is used to symbolise something wider or other.

Question 6

Motif

Answer 6

A dominant idea of a text. Something that is used to develop a theme. It is revisited throughout a text, regularly.

Question 7

Simile

Answer 7

Comparing two things using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Question 8

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 8

When the weather reflects a character’s feelings / mood

Question 9

Oxymoron

Answer 9

When two words that have opposite meanings are put together

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

Comparing two things by saying something IS something else

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

Giving something something human qualities

Question 12

Zoomorphism

Answer 12

Giving something or someone animal qualities

Question 13

Onomatopoeia

Answer 13

When a word sounds like the noise it makes.

Question 14

Repetition

Answer 14

When a word or phrase is repeated.

Question 15

Alliteration

Answer 15

When consecutive words start with the same sound or letter.

Question 16

Sibilance

Answer 16

A specific type of alliteration in which the ‘s’ sound is repeated in words.

Question 17

Assonance

Answer 17

A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is the vowel sound

Question 18

Consonance

Answer 18

A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is a consonant

Question 19

Tricolon

Answer 19

Three adjectives or phrases used in a row.

Question 20

Hyperbole

Answer 20

Exaggerating - making something seem bigger, better or worse than it really is.

Question 21

Anecdote

Answer 21

A short, amusing or interesting story about a real or imagined person

Question 22

Rhetorical Question

Answer 22

A question that does not need an answer.

Question 23

Emotive Language

Answer 23

Words that make the reader feel an emotion.

Question 24

Imperative

Answer 24

A command

Question 25

Direct Address

Answer 25

When a writer ‘talks’ directly to the reader. Often relies on using the pronoun ‘you’

Question 26

Enjambment

Answer 26

When there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry so you read straight onto the next line

Question 27

Caesura

Answer 27

A break in the middle of a line of poetry caused by punctuation

Question 28

Free Verse

Answer 28

Poetry with no formal structure

Question 29

Rhyming Couplets

Answer 29

In poetry. Where two lines of the same length rhyme and complete a thought.