Language Techniques

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

A word which refers to a previously used word

Question 2

Asyndetic list

Answer 2

A list broken up by commas rather than conjunctions like ‘and’

Question 3

Biblical

Answer 3

Realting to the bible religious connottions

Question 4

Colloquialism

Answer 4

An informal phrase common as its time of utterance

Question 5

Didatic

Answer 5

Acmoral message meaning to give instructions

Question 6

Dramatic irony

Answer 6

When the audience knows information which the character doesn’t know

Question 7

Foreboding

Answer 7

Apprehension that a bad event will occur

Question 8

Foreshadowing

Answer 8

An indication that an event will occur later in a narrative

Question 9

Interjection

Answer 9

Sudden remark or used as an inteription e.g Bah Humbug

Question 10

Juxstaposition

Answer 10

Comparing two concepts characters or clauses in close proximity in a passage for an effect of contrast

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

Two opposing terms are placed next to each other

Question 12

Pathetic phallacy

Answer 12

A mind of personification in which human emotions are projected onto nature weather often to create mood

Question 13

Personification

Answer 13

Atributing human qualities to nonhuman things

Question 14

Polysyndetic listing

Answer 14

Using and in a list

Question 15

Semantic field

Answer 15

A group of words with similar meaning next to each other

Question 16

Satire

Answer 16

Critisizing oeople through the use if humour or irony

Question 17

Sibilance

Answer 17

Repetition of s sounds

Question 18

Symbolism

Answer 18

Using one object to reprnsent something e.g scrooge represting the attitudes of the upper class

Question 19

Superlative

Answer 19

An adjective describing the highest degree of waht it is e.g PUREST white