Linguistic/Rhetorical features

Question 1

What is triadic listing?

Answer 1

Elements used in a list to give emphasis and build to a climax.

Question 2

What is an example of triadic listing?

Answer 2

‘Blood, sweat and tears’

Question 3

What is lexis?

Answer 3

The linguistic term for vocabulary.

Question 4

What is phonological effects?

Answer 4

The study of sounds in english.

Question 5

What is semantic field?

Answer 5

Groups of words that are connected in meaning.

Question 6

What is an example of semantic field?

Answer 6

classroom, teacher, lesson and homework are all connected to school.

Question 7

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 7

The name we give to things that don’t exist physically- feelings, ideas, qualities.

Question 8

What is an example of an abstract noun?

Answer 8

friendship, sadness, democracy.

Question 9

What is syndetic listing?

Answer 9

Words in a list connected by a conjunction.

Question 10

What is an example of syndetic listing?

Answer 10

’ Birds flock and wheel and cry’.

Question 11

What is asyndetic listing?

Answer 11

Words in a list which are not connected by a conjunction.

Question 12

What is an example of asyndetic listing?

Answer 12

‘I gave her food, shelter, clothing’.

Question 13

What is prosody?

Answer 13

This refers to features of spoken language such as stress, pace. rhythm and intonation.

Question 14

What is an intensifier?

Answer 14

A modifier which has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.

Question 15

What is an example of an intensifier?

Answer 15

‘honestly’ in ‘I honestly don’t know’

Question 16

What is a balanced sentence?

Answer 16

Type of rhetorical language where contrasting ideas or words are balanced against each other.

Question 17

What is an example of a balanced sentence?

Answer 17

‘It’s just too good from Green, and just too bad for the goalkeeper’.

Question 18

What is a conditional clause?

Answer 18

Used to express that the action in the main clause (without if) can only take place if a certain condition (in the clause with if) is fulfilled.

Question 19

What is an example of a conditional clause?

Answer 19

‘If I find her address, I’ll send her an invitation’

Question 20

What is anaphora?

Answer 20

In grammatical terms this means that a word, usually a pronoun, refers back to something or someone that has already been mentioned.

Question 21

What is an example of anaphora?

Answer 21

’ Barry can’t come because he’s ill’

Question 22

What is antithesis?

Answer 22

Here the writer or speaker has a concern for symmetry- the second half of the sentence contains a similar or opposite idea to the first half. These techniques are very effective in persuasion, and are sometimes known as parallelism or antithesis.

Question 23

What is an example of antithesis?

Answer 23

‘Ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country.

Question 24

What is emotive lexis?

Answer 24

Language which can be used to affect people’s emotions.

Question 25

What is alliteration?

Answer 25

When two or more words close to each other begin with the same sound.

Question 26

What is an example of alliteration?

Answer 26

‘…rifles rapid rattle’.