Linguistic and Narrative devices

Question 1

What is Register?

Answer 1

Level of formality to someone’s tone.

Question 2

What is Pragmatics?

Answer 2

the meaning behind words dependant on their context?

Question 3

What is Phonology?

Answer 3

How language sounds and sound patterns

Question 4

What is discourse

Answer 4

a unit of language that stretches longer than a single sentence, i.e. across whole texts. (Narrative voice, Cohesion)

Question 5

What is polysyndeton?

Answer 5

repetition of and in a sentence

Question 6

What is Hypophora?

Answer 6

Question that is answered by the writer/speaker.

Question 7

What is an apposition?

Answer 7

Noun or noun phrase immediately followed by a noun or noun phrase for clarification.

Question 8

What is a minor sentence?

Answer 8

A grammatically incorrect sentence

Question 9

What is a Morpheme?

Answer 9

opposites within a clause.

Question 10

What is consonance?

Answer 10

Repetition of consonant sounds.

Question 11

What is Characterisation?

Answer 11

the characteristics of character’s to convey their personality.