Language Techniques - Basic

Question 1

Types of Imagery and Meaning

Answer 1

Visual, Auditory (sound), Olfactory (smell), Gustatory (taste), Tactile (touch)

descriptive language that appeals to the senses and re-creates sensory experience.

Question 2

Synesthesia

Answer 2

effect of multiple senses.

Question 3

Simile

Answer 3

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles etc.

Question 4

Types of Metaphors

Answer 4

simple metaphor: one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
mixed metaphor: the inconsistent mixture of two or more metaphors
dead metaphor: or a cliche, it is overused
extended metaphor: metaphor that is extended or developed over several lines of writing

Question 5

Synecdoche

Answer 5

a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

a figure of speech in which contrasting or opposite ideas are presented in parallel form.

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

Question 9

Apostrophe

Answer 9

a figure of speech in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or otherwise not physically present, an imaginary person or entity, something inhuman, or a place or concept .

Question 10

Types of Irony and Meaning

Answer 10

irony: a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality - between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true.

verbal: a writer or speaker says one thing but means another
situational: a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens e.g. dying day after winning lottery
dramatic: a discrepancy between a character’s perception and what the reader or audience knows to be true

Question 11

Rhetorical Question

Answer 11

any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks.

Question 12

Oxymoron

Answer 12

a figure of speech that fuses two contradictory or opposing ideas.

Question 13

Allusion

Answer 13

a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sport, science or pop culture.

Question 14

Symbol

Answer 14

anything that stands for or represents something larger and more complex.

Question 15

Symbolism

Answer 15

the serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other things or ideas.

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

the repetition of initial consonant sounds, or simply the repetition of sounds in words.

Question 17

Assonance

Answer 17

the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.

Question 18

Consonance

Answer 18

the repetition of consonant sounds in stresses syllables.

Question 19

Repetition

Answer 19

the use, more than once, of any element of language - a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, a sentence, a grammatical pattern, or a rhythmical pattern.

Question 20

Pun

Answer 20

a play on words, either using a word or a phrase that has two different meanings or two different words or phrases with the same sound.

Question 21

Ellipsis

Answer 21

three periods used to show a pause in dialogue due to hesitancy, perhaps, or to show that words or sentences have been left out.

Question 22

Anaphora

Answer 22

repetition or words, or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.

Question 23

Paralellism

Answer 23

the use of grammatically similar constructions, often repetition, to accentuate ideas or images.

Question 24

Onomatopoeia

Answer 24

the use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meanings.

Question 25

Paradox

Answer 25

a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually represents a truth.