Language Techniques And Devices

Question 1

What is an adjective?

Answer 1

A word that describes a noun. For example: soft, angry, fluffy, green, tall, funny, crazy, strong, horrible, happy, aromatic, sweet

Question 2

What is an adverb?

Answer 2

A word that describes the verb. For example: slowly, very, happily, greatly, yesterday, always, early, fast, thoroughly, clean.

Question 3

What is Alliteration?

Answer 3

Alliteration is when there is a repeating a consonant at the start of a series of two or more words.
E.G.
The wild and woolly waits and wonders till we walk by.

Question 4

What is a Rhetorical Question?

Answer 4

A rhetorical Question is used to ask a question to the reader but it requires no answer, this adds effect.

Question 5

What is Repetition?

Answer 5

Repetition is when there is a repeat of the same thing or words.

Question 6

What is a Verb?

Answer 6

A verb is a word that refers to an action.
E.G.
Run, sing, talking, sleeping, creeping, cooking, crashed, crashing, cooked.

Question 7

What is Rule of Three?

Answer 7

The rule of three is used to help say things which are listed to make them more memorable to remember.
E.G.
Work, Rest and Play.
Stop, Look and Listen

Question 8

What is a Simile?

Answer 8

A simile is describing something being like or as something else.
E.G.
Her skin was like silk.
He ran like the wind.
Her eyes sparked like diamonds.

Question 9

What is Sibliance?

Answer 9

Sibliance is used to repeat the S or SH sounds within two or more words.

Question 10

What is Semantic Field?

Answer 10

Semantic Field is when the writer uses a set of words that create an image of a theme.
E.G.
Theme of War: blood, field of red.
Soldiers: the field was littered with uniforms.

Question 11

What is Personification?

Answer 11

Personification is when the writer gives human qualities to a non-human objects.
E.G.
The mood crept across the sky.
The tree stood like a soldier.

Question 12

What is Pathetic Fallacy?

Answer 12

Pathetic Fallacy is when the weather is used to create an atmosphere and the mood to the text.
E.G.
The sombre clouds darkened the mood.
There was no sound through the house expect the moaning wind.

Question 13

What is an Oxymoron?

Answer 13

An oxymoron is when there is two opposite words or ideas brought together to make one.
E.G.
Sweet sorrow.
Amazingly awful.
Same difference.
Definitely maybe.

Question 14

What is Onomatopoeia?

Answer 14

Onomatopoeia is a type of word that sounds like the thing that it is describing.
E.G.
Buzz, pop, snap, hiss, meow, roar, bang, woof and splash

Question 15

What is a Noun?

Answer 15

A noun is words that are the name of a person, thing, place or idea.
E.G.
Television, Shop, Fish, London, America, Michael, Rebecca, Steven, Asda, M&S, Nike and Microsoft

Question 16

What is a Metaphor?

Answer 16

A metaphor is describing something in terms of something else.
E.G.
His eyes were hollows of madness.
The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees.

Question 17

What is Juxtaposition?

Answer 17

Juxtaposition is when there is a contrasting of two opposite and different ideas.
E.G.
Beauty and the Beast 
Hot and Cold
Light and Dark
Heaven and Hell

Question 18

What is Imagery?

Answer 18

Imagery is used to create a image in your mind through the use of words.
E.G.
The rich luxury chocolate, pouring heavily throughout the fountain.

Question 19

What is Hyperbole?

Answer 19

Hyperbole is used to emphasise an idea.
E.G.
Mile-high ice-cream cones.
I told you a thousand times.
I'm so hungry i can eat a whole world.

Question 20

What is Emotive Language?

Answer 20

Emotive Language is used by showing the arouse (challenge, excited, alert) of emotions of the reader.
E.G.
Some dogs are homeless and starving and need your help.
The warm tears trickled down her cheeks as she watched the love of her life walk away.

Question 21

What is Dramatic Irony?

Answer 21

Dramatic Irony is when the audience or reader knows information that the other characters do not know.
E.G.
Romeo does not know that Juliet is faking her death.

Question 22

What is Connotations?

Answer 22

Connotations is words or feelings associated with something.

Question 23

What is a Assonance?

Answer 23

An Assonance is a short vowel repeated within two more words.
E.G.
Anna ate an Apple.

Question 24

What is a Anecdote?

Answer 24

An Anecdote is a short amusing or interesting, that has a point or moral.
E.G.
A girl tells her friend on an embarrassing incident in a changing room.