Language Terms/ Technique.

Question 1

Adjective

Answer 1

A word describing a noun (sweet)

Question 2

Verb

Answer 2

A word that describes an action (run)

Question 3

Noun

Answer 3

a word used to identify any of a class place or thing

Question 4

Pronoun

Answer 4

A word that can function as a noun phrase by itself

Question 5

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 5

Pathetic fallacy is when an author gives human emotions and traits to nature or inanimate objects. It is often used when describing weather.

Question 6

Foreboding

Answer 6

A feeling that something bad will happen (as the hurricane neared the residents of the hotel started to feel a sense of foreboding)

Question 7

Dramatic irony

Answer 7

Dramatic irony is a form of irony that is expressed through a work’s structure: an audience’s awareness of the situation and the characters ignorance to it (for example Othello says truthful Iago even though he’s tricking Othello and the audience knows it)

Question 8

Phrase

Answer 8

A phrase is a small group of words that adds meaning to a sentence. A phrase is not a sentence because it is not a complete idea with a subject and a verb

Question 9

Abstract noun

Answer 9

A noun denoting an idea, quality or state (danger

Question 10

Concrete noun

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Is a noun that is identified through one of the five sentences (gas)

Question 11

Proper noun

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A name used for an individual place, person or company (Pepsi).

Question 12

Main clause

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A clause that can make a whole sentence (he sat on a rug)

Question 13

Protagonist

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A leading character in a play, film or book.

Question 14

Antagonist

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A person who actively opposes someone or something.

Question 15

Monologue

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A long speech by one person

Question 16

Hyperbole

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An over exaggeration of one thing ( I’m so hungry i could eat a horse).

Question 17

Oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (falsely true).

Question 18

Colloquial

Answer 18

Used in ordinary or familiar conversation

Question 19

Superlative

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Expressing the highest or very high degree of a quality.(bravest)

Question 20

Subordinate clause

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Forms part of and is dependent if a main clause. (When it rang)

Question 21

Imagery

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similes, metaphors and personification; they all compare something ‘real’ with something ‘imagined’.

Question 22

Enjambment

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a device used in poetry where a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse. This technique is often used to maintain a sense of continuation from one stanza to another.

Question 23

Irony

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the humorous or sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean.

Question 24

Pathos

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language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow.

Question 25

Motif

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a pattern or recurring idea in an artistic work.

Question 26

Symbolism

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the use of symbols to represent ideas or

qualities.

Question 27

Connotations

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The underlying ideas and feelings suggested by a word

Question 28

Evaluation

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A judgement about the value of something.

Question 29

Pace

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The speed at which the story takes place

Question 30

Verb

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A ‘doing’ or action word e.g. “ran”, “laughed” and “screamed”

Question 31

Slang

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Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group.

Question 32

Jargon

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special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.

Question 33

Narrative writing

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A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both.

Question 34

Descriptive writing

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is the clear description of people, places, objects, or events using appropriate details.