Language Techniques

Question 1

Tone

Answer 1

attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience

Question 2

How can you identify tone?

Answer 2

Tone is expressed by your use of syntax, your point of view, your diction, and the level of formality in your writing. Examples of tone in a story include just about any adjective you can imagine: Scared.

Question 3

What is the readers reaction to tone?

Answer 3

The tone influences how your reader will emotionally respond to the content and subject

Question 4

Imagery

Answer 4

to use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. Creates a visual representation in your head.

Question 5

How to identify imagery

Answer 5

pay attention to words, phrases, and sentences that connect with your five senses

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle )

Question 7

Why does a writer use repetition?

Answer 7

Repeating a word or phrase in a sentence can emphasise a point, or help to make sure it is fully understood.

Question 8

What is the difference between a adjective and adverb?

Answer 8

An adjective describes a noun or pronoun: “That boy is so loud!” An adverb describes a verb or anything apart from a noun and pronoun: “That boy speaks so loudly!”

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common.

Eg The snow is a white blanket. (Usually contains is)

Question 10

Effect of personification

Answer 10

This is used to make the writing more interesting and makes the reader relate the object to a human;It adds emotion of different sorts depending on what is said. Hence, this increases the focus on that object or action the object has been described to have done. The reader emotionally connects with the object

Question 11

Euphemism

Answer 11

A word or expression said instead of something that is too harsh usually due to embarrassment( sex and going to the toilet)

Eg: Passed away instead of died.
Or dirtied his trousers.

Question 12

Superlative

Answer 12

The best at something

Question 13

Effect of superlative

Answer 13

indicate an extreme or unsurpassed level of emotion, association, or hatred for an object.

Reader reacts to this

Question 14

Effect of tautology

Answer 14

Tautologies interrupt prose and conversation with unnecessary words. They also sound bad because they are a kind of mistake

Question 15

Juxtaposition

Answer 15

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”

Question 16

Aphorism/maxim

Answer 16

NOT SURE CHECK A little saying words of wisdom.

'’To much work and not enough play makes Jack a dull boy’’

Question 17

Pathos

Answer 17

used to evoke pity or sadness in a reader/audience.

Question 18

What is the effect of pathos?

Answer 18

Writers and directors use this technique to appeal to their readers’/viewers’ past experiences and/or knowledge of that emotion. It is a persuasive device used to manipulate audience emotions to engage them with character and/or context.

Question 19

Litotes

Answer 19

Deliberately undervaluing what you have done ‘not bad’

Question 20

Litotes effect

Answer 20

discovers a unique way to attract people’s attention to an idea, and that is by ignoring it.

Question 21

What is the effect of juxtaposition?

Answer 21

it helps to bring about the importance and specific qualities of each one.

Question 22

Pattern of three

Answer 22

Listing a list of 3 for effect

Question 23

Bathos

Answer 23

Creating an anti climax a quick turn to something diffrent (somewhat undisirable)

abrupt turn from the serious and poetic to the regular and silly.

E.g her cheeks were lined with rouge, and her dress was a flowing green and blue which made her look rather like a tired, old peacock.

Question 24

Maxim

Answer 24

A short expressive statment saying general truth

Question 25

asyndeton

Answer 25

No conjunction between part of a sentence

E,g i came, i saw, i conquered

Question 26

Polysyndeton

Answer 26

Repitition on a conjunction

E.g and ….. and ….. and

Question 27

Effect of asyndeton?

Answer 27

Rephetroical to make a speech more dramatic and effective by speading up the rythm and pace

Question 28

Tautology

Answer 28

Two words next to each other that doesn’t need to be there

E.g very excellent

Question 29

What is an idiom

Answer 29

idiom refers to a set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words. An interesting fact regarding the device is that the expression is not interpreted literally. The phrase is understood to mean something quite different from what individual words of the phrase would imply.

Question 30

What is pathetic fallacy?

Answer 30

attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human.

Question 31

What is zoomorphism?

Answer 31

Giving a human animal qualities(Jake barked)

Question 32

What is pathetic fallacy?

Answer 32

Where the weather/atmosphere describes the mood

A dark night brings a nasty/evil atmosphere

Question 33

What is Dysphenism ?

Answer 33

the substitution of a more offensive or disparaging word or phrase for one considered less offensive

Question 34

Example of a Euphenism and dysphenism?

Answer 34

Doing revison:

Euphenism: time to boost intelligence

Dysphemism: back to the grind

Question 35

Epistrophe

Answer 35

Repeating end of clauses

Question 36

Mesodiplosis

Answer 36

When middle of clauses are repeated

Question 37

Anaphora

Answer 37

Repeating at thr begining of clauses

Question 38

Anadiplosis

Answer 38

When the end of a clause is repeated at the begining of the next one

Question 39

Proleptic irony

Answer 39

When earlier events give audience a clue(similar to foreshadowing it just has irony within it)

Question 40

In media res

Answer 40

Begining or joining a scene whilst it already underway