Language techniques meanings

Question 1

What is an opinion?

Answer 1

An individual’s own thoughts or beliefs

Question 2

What is a statistic?

Answer 2

Numerical data

Question 3

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 3

A question that does not require an answer

Question 4

What is emotive language?

Answer 4

Language used for the purpose of the reader having an emotional response to the text

Question 5

What is list of three?

Answer 5

Three words or reasons put together in list form

Question 6

What is a simile?

Answer 6

A figure of speech that express a resemblance of things of different kinds, often using the words like and as

Question 7

What is a metaphor?

Answer 7

A figure of speech used to compare one thing to another by saying it is that other thing

Question 8

What is personification?

Answer 8

Giving human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object

Question 9

What is a first person narration?

Answer 9

A narrative mode that involves a speaker talking of and about themselves

Question 10

What is a third person narration?

Answer 10

A narrative mode that involves the narrator referring to the characters as he/she/it

Question 11

What is alliteration?

Answer 11

Repetition of the initial consonant sounds at the start of two or more words

Question 12

What are the five senses?

Answer 12

Imagery descriptions of of sounds, sights, smells, noises, and physical feelings

Question 13

What is a short sentence?

Answer 13

A not lengthy sentence with one clause

Question 14

What is direct address?

Answer 14

The text addresses the reader - usually done through the word you

Question 15

What is repetition?

Answer 15

The repeated use of the same word or phrases

Question 16

What is sibilance?

Answer 16

A type of alliteration where the ‘s’ sound is repeated

Question 17

What is punctuation?

Answer 17

The use of so certain marks to clarify the meaning by grouping words grammatically into sentences, clauses and phrases

Question 18

What are ellipsis?

Answer 18

When elements have been emitted from a sentence, phrase or word (don’t)

Question 19

What is jargon?

Answer 19

Technical language that refers to a specific topic, it can seem like jibberish to those who do not know about the topic

Question 20

What is a hyperbole?

Answer 20

Extreme exaggeration for effect

Question 21

What is a pun?

Answer 21

A play on words - usually using words that sound the same or have a double meaning

Question 22

What is taboo language?

Answer 22

Language that is typically avoided because the are considered offensive

Question 23

What is irony?

Answer 23

Saying one thing when it is obvious the opposite is meant

Question 24

What is a fact?

Answer 24

A fact is a piece of information that can be demonstrated or proven to be true

Question 25

What is an imperative?

Answer 25

A command or instruction

Question 26

What is a figure of speech?

Answer 26

An expression that should not be taken seriously and normally has a hidden meaning

Question 27

What is an onomatopoeia?

Answer 27

A word with a sound associated to it that is similar to the word

Question 28

What is symbolism?

Answer 28

When an object is used to represent something important