Language Techniques and Structure

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

A series of words in a row which have the same first consonant

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

Extended metaphor in which a story is told

Question 4

Anecdote

Answer 4

A short story using examples to support ideas

Question 5

Bias

Answer 5

Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair

Question 6

Cliché

Answer 6

Overused phrase or theme

Question 7

Consonance

Answer 7

Repetition of consonant sounds,

Question 8

Caesura

Answer 8

A break in the middle of a line of a poem which uses punctuation ( . , ; : ect…)

Question 9

Connotations

Answer 9

Implied or suggested meanings of words or phrases

Question 10

Dialogue

Answer 10

Speech

Question 11

Ellipsis

Answer 11

Using 3 dots as punctuation to express emotion or that something has been emitted from the writing

Question 12

Enjambment

Answer 12

Incomplete sentences at the ned of lines of poetry

Question 13

End-Stopping

Answer 13

Punctuation at the end of a line of poetry

Question 14

Emotive Language

Answer 14

Language which creates an emotion with the reader

Question 15

Exclamation Mark

Answer 15

! punctuation used to express surprise, shock, shouting, etc…

Question 16

Extended Metaphor

Answer 16

A metaphor that continues into the sentence that follows or throughout the text

Question 17

Facts

Answer 17

Information that can be proven

Question 18

First Person

Answer 18

Using ‘I’ to tell the story

Question 19

Humour

Answer 19

Provoking laughter and providing amusement

Question 20

Hyperbole

Answer 20

Use of exaggerated terms of emphasis

Question 21

Imagery

Answer 21

Creating a picture in the readers head

Question 22

Juxtaposition

Answer 22

Placing contrasting ides close together in a text

Question 23

Metaphor

Answer 23

A comparison as if a thing were something else

Question 24

Motif

Answer 24

A recurring set of words/phrases or imagery for effect

Question 25

Onomatopeia

Answer 25

Words that sound like their meaning

Question 26

Opinion

Answer 26

Information that you can’t prove

Question 27

Oxymoron

Answer 27

Using two terms together, that normally contradict each other

Question 28

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 28

Ascribing human conduct and feeling to nature and the weather

Question 29

Protagonist

Answer 29

The main character that propels the novel forward

Question 30

Personification

Answer 30

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, animals or natural phenomena

Question 31

Repetition

Answer 31

When words or phrases are used more than once in a piece of writing

Question 32

Rhetorical Question

Answer 32

Asking a question as a way of asserting something

Asking a question which already has the answer hidden in it

Question 33

Sibilance

Answer 33

Repetition of the letter ‘s’, it is a form of alliteration

Question 34

Second Person

Answer 34

Using ‘you’ to tell the story

Question 35

Superlative

Answer 35

Declaring something the best within its class

i.e. the ugliest, the most precious etc…

Question 36

Sensory Detail Imagery

Answer 36

Sight, Sound, Taste, Tough, Smell

Question 37

Simile

Answer 37

Comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 38

Statistics

Answer 38

Facts and Figures

Question 39

Symbolism

Answer 39

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

Question 40

Third Person

Answer 40

Using ‘he’,’ she’, ‘it’ and ‘they’ to tell the story

Question 41

Tense

Answer 41

Writing in the past, present or the future

Question 42

Triplets

Answer 42

Repetition of three ideas, words of phrases close together

Question 43

Tone

Answer 43

The way a piece of text sounds

Question 44

Directive

Answer 44

Using you, we or us

Question 45

Describe a Simple Sentence

Answer 45

Contains a single clause

Question 46

Describe a Compound Sentence

Answer 46

Two independent clauses joined by a connective

each clause should make sense alone

Question 47

Describe a Complex Sentence

Answer 47

An indépendant and at least one dependant clauses in a sentence
(clauses are not equal)

Question 48

Clause

Answer 48

An indépendant idea which forms part of a sentence

Question 49

Adjective

Answer 49

A word used to describe

Question 50

Adverb

Answer 50

A word used to describe how something is done (often -ly words)

Question 51

Modal Verbs

Answer 51

Verbs which offer a choice (e.g: could, should, will…)

Question 52

Noun

Answer 52

The name of something

Question 53

Pronoun

Answer 53

Short words used instead of names (i.e: he, she, you, it, they, us and them)

Question 54

Preposition

Answer 54

Words used usually before a noun or pronoun to describe the relationship between the noun/ pronoun and the rest of the sentance (e.g: after, on, in with, to etc..)

Question 55

Verb

Answer 55

A word used to describe an action