Language Techniques

Question 1

Purpose of direct address

Answer 1

Makes the reader feel more involved in the text.

They feel that the text has been written for them

Question 2

Enjambment

Answer 2

Continuing a line after the line breaks

Question 3

Rhetorical question

Answer 3

A question that is asked not in order to receive an answer, from the audience or reader

Question 4

Oxymoron

Answer 4

Figure of speech that puts together opposite elements

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

When you use ‘like’ or ‘as’ to compare two different things

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

Makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Apply human characteristics and create metaphors to describe a scene.
Talking about nonhuman things as if they were human = personifying them

Question 8

Caesura

Answer 8

A break or pause in the middle of the line or verse

Question 9

Adjectives

Answer 9

Words that describe a noun

Question 10

Repetition

Answer 10

Repeating of a word or phrase, used to add emphasis and stress in writing in speech

Question 11

Purpose of rhetorical questions

Answer 11

Encourages the listener to consider a concept or idea

Question 12

Purpose of a metaphor

Answer 12

Helps the reader see familiar concepts in new ways and adds powerful details

Question 13

Purpose of adjectives

Answer 13

Adjectives modify nouns and provide more detail about an hour

Question 14

Purpose of a simile

Answer 14

They emphasise certain characteristics

Question 15

Purpose of personification

Answer 15

Usually expresses characters feelings and give some more life to a scene

Question 16

Purpose of an oxymoron

Answer 16

It can emphasise conflict and add a dramatic effect

Question 17

Purpose of a soliloquy

Answer 17

Insightful -Shares the characters thoughts and feelings, personal only the audience can hear

Question 18

Subservient meaning

Answer 18

Women’s goal in life to please men, women do what men want

Question 19

What is a patriarchal society

Answer 19

A system of society in which men hold the power in women are largely excluded from it

Question 20

Strife meaning

Answer 20

Violent conflict

Question 21

Purpose of listing

Answer 21

Highlights key information and draws attention to several items at once

Question 22

Purpose of an exclamatory sentence

Answer 22

Two expressed strong emotion… Like anger, urgency, surprise, excite, shock.

Question 23

Purpose of an interrogative sentence

Answer 23

To ask a direct question… For curiosity, to get answers, to understand something