Language Techniques

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

When you give an inanimate object a human characteristic.

“The sun stared straight back at him”

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

This is where the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow. For example, the cold, crisp, crust of clean, clear ice.

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

An onomatopoeia is a word that actually looks like the sound it makes, and we can almost hear those sounds as we read. Here are some words that are used as examples of onomatopoeia: slam, splash, bam, babble, warble, gurgle, mumble, and belch.

Question 5

Simile

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This is where a phrase establishes similarity between two things. Similes usually involve the words ‘like’ or ‘as’- he is as quick as an arrow in flight, as white as snow, like a burning star.

Question 6

Sibilance

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Sibilance is a figure of speech in which a hissing sound is created within a group of words through the repetition of “s” sounds. … An example of sibilance is: “Sadly, Sam sold seven venomous serpents to Sally and Cyrus in San Francisco.”

Question 8

Rhetorical question

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When a question is asked without the need for an answer. An example of this could be “where on earth could that boy be?”

Question 10

Colloquial language

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When a group of people are talking informally and is usually seen or heard by younger people.

Question 11

Metaphor

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This is where a word or phrase is used to imply figurative resemblance, not a literal or ‘actual’ one. For example, he flew into the room.

Question 15

Hyperbole

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This is exaggerating for a purpose – it is not meant to be taken literally. For example, we gorged on the banquet of beans on toast.

Question 17

Imagery

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This is where strong pictures or ideas are created in the mind of the reader. Similes, metaphors and personification can all be used to achieve this - they all compare something ‘real’ with something ‘imagined’.

Question 18

Noun

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noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Betty Crocker), an animal (cat), a place (Omaha), a quality (softness), an idea (justice), or an action (yodeling). It’s usually a single word, but not always: cake, shoes, school bus, and time and a half are all nouns.

Question 19

Verb

Answer 19

A verb is a word used to describe an action, state or occurrence. Verbs can be used to describe an action, that’s doing something. For example, like the word ‘jumping’ in this sentence: The rabbit was jumping in the field. They can also be used to describe a state of being, that’s feeling something.

Question 20

Adjective

Answer 20

In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated adj) is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Adjectives are one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns.

Question 21

Adverb

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An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb (he sings loudly), an adjective (very tall), another adverb (ended too quickly), or even a whole sentence (Fortunately, I had brought an umbrella). Adverbs often end in -ly, but some (such as fast) look exactly the same as their adjective counterparts.

Question 22

Repetition

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Repetition is a literary device that involves intentionally using a word or phrase for effect, two or more times in a speech or written work. For repetition to be noticeable, the words or phrases should be repeated within close proximity of each other.

Question 23

Oxymoron

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A common oxymoron is the phrase “the same difference.” This phrase qualifies as an oxymoron because the words “same” and “difference” have opposite meanings. … Bringing them together into one phrase produces a verbally puzzling, yet engaging, effect.

Question 24

Pronoun

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A pronoun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun. In the sentence Joe saw Jill, and he waved at her, the pronouns he and her take the place of Joe and Jill, respectively.

Question 25

Abstract noun

Answer 25

Examples of abstract nouns include liberty, anger, freedom, love, generosity, charity, and democracy. Notice that these nouns express ideas, concepts, or qualities that cannot be seen or experienced. We cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or smell these concepts.

Question 26

Proper noun

Answer 26

Some examples of common nouns are things like table, dog, city, love, movie, ocean, book. A proper noun is a noun that references a specific person, place, thing, animal or idea. Everything around you is a noun, and so learning to identify common and proper nouns is important for your writing.

Question 27

Collective noun

Answer 27

In linguistics, a collective noun is a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing, such as the word “group”, which can be applied to people (“a group of people”) or dogs (“a group of dogs”) or other things.

Question 28

Assonance

Answer 28

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled ).

Question 29

Dialect

Answer 29

DescriptionIn the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them.

Question 30

Dialogue

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DescriptionDialogue is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.

Question 31

Dissonance

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In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them.

Question 32

Enjambment

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In poetry, enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. Lines without enjambment are end-stopped.

Question 33

Irony

Answer 33

DescriptionIrony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what on the surface appears to be the case or to be expected differs radically from what is actually the case. Irony can be categorized into different types, including verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony.

Question 34

Monolgue

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In theatre, a monologue is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media, as well as in non-dramatic media such as poetry.

Question 35

Pathos

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DescriptionPathos appeals to the emotions of the audience and elicits feelings that already reside in them. Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric, as well as in literature, film and other narrative art.

Question 36

Rhythm

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Rhythm generally means a “movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions”.

Question 37

Rhyme

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A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for effect in the final positions of lines of poems and songs.

Question 38

Caesura

Answer 38

A caesura, also written cæsura and cesura, is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins. It may be expressed by a comma, a tick, or two lines, either slashed or upright.

Question 39

Symbolism

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DescriptionA symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different concepts and experiences.

Question 40

Semantic field

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Description In linguistics, a semantic field is a lexical set of words grouped semantically that refers to a specific subject. The term is also used in anthropology, computational semiotics, and technical exegesis.

Question 41

Preposition

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A word that describes the location of something. Such as over, under , off and on. It shows where something is.

Question 42

Article

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A word that picks out a specific noun such as THE book or A house.