language techniques

Question 1

synecdoche

Answer 1

a figure of speech in which a part of something s made to represent the whole or vice versa
e.g a HEAD count – a people count

Question 2

metonymy

Answer 2

when a word associated with something is used to refer to the thing itself
e.g the crown – the king or queen

Question 3

anaphora

Answer 3

repetition of the same word at the beginning of phrases
e.g After the sunsets and the dooryards…After the novels, after the tea cups,

Question 4

parenthesis

Answer 4

a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas

Question 5

epizeuxis

Answer 5

a form of repetition in which a word is repeated immediately for emphasis

Question 6

quotidian

Answer 6

of or occurring every day; daily

Question 7

mordant

Answer 7

(especially of humor) having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting

Question 8

fragmentation

Answer 8

jumping from one thing to another

Question 9

anti-aesthetic language

Answer 9

making something seem uglier than it is – opposite of typical romantic language

Question 10

Enjambment

Answer 10

a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next

Question 11

abstraction

Answer 11

the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events

Question 12

antimetabole

Answer 12

the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order

Question 13

deixis

Answer 13

pointers in a text that allow you to identify its time and place

Question 14

hypophora

Answer 14

a rhetorical term for a strategy in which a speaker or writer raises a question and then immediately answers it

Question 15

wryly

Answer 15

in a way that expresses dry, especially mocking, humour.

Question 16

epistrophe

Answer 16

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

Question 17

Dirimens copulatio

Answer 17

mentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one-sided or unqualified

Question 18

Exemplum

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an example or model, especially a story told to illustrate a moral point.

Question 19

Litotes

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negation to create affirmative understatement, e.g. “That wasn’t half bad”

Question 20

Scesis onomaton

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emphasises an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements

rhetorical technique consisting of a sentence constructed only of nouns and adjectives

Question 21

Sententia

Answer 21

a maxim, proverb, or popular quotation – a brief expression of conventional wisdom