Linguistic Devices

Question 1

Pun

Answer 1

A play on words

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

When something is ‘like’ or ‘as’ something else

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

When something ‘is’ something else

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

Words close together beginning with the same letter

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 6

Repetition

Answer 6

When a word/Phrase/idea is repeated

Question 7

Sibilance

Answer 7

Repetition of the sssss sound

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

Something non-living is described as living

Question 9

Emotive Language

Answer 9

Language used to stir any emotion

Question 10

Irony

Answer 10

Mildly sarcastic; often complete opposite of what is intended

Question 11

Ambiguity

Answer 11

When something is vague or unclear

Question 12

Antithesis

Answer 12

a contrast

Question 13

Rule of three

Answer 13

three words together for a dramatic effect

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

words which sound like the sounds they describe

Question 15

Imperative

Answer 15

A command- telling you what to do

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

Contradiction, contrast

Question 17

Superlative

Answer 17

the highest degree [tallest, highest]

Question 18

Cliché

Answer 18

frequently repeated phrase or word

Question 19

Rhyme

Answer 19

obvious

Question 20

Monosyllabic

Answer 20

words with one syllable

Question 21

Polysyllabic

Answer 21

words with many syllables

Question 22

Pronouns

Answer 22

Words used to place name

Question 23

Rhetorical

Answer 23

question asked for effect rather than answer

Question 24

Colloquial language

Answer 24

slang

Question 25

Imagery

Answer 25

images created through words/ description

Question 26

Hyperbolic/Hyperbole

Answer 26

exaggeration

Question 27

Litotes

Answer 27

Understatement

Question 28

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 28

Using the weather to reflect the tone or mood

Question 29

Intertextuality

Answer 29

ideas taken from one text + imported into a new text

Question 30

Proverb

Answer 30

Widely used sayings

Question 31

Idiom

Answer 31

An expression

Question 32

Euphemism

Answer 32

Word or phrase that is less blunt

Question 33

Bathos

Answer 33

Anti climax

Question 34

Denouement

Answer 34

Final resolution in a text, the unravelling of the plot

Question 35

First person narrative

Answer 35

I, We

Question 36

Second person narrative

Answer 36

You

Question 37

Third person narrative

Answer 37

He/She/They

Question 38

Rhetorical devices

Answer 38

persuasive devices