Literacy Language Features Flashcards
What is a pathetic fallacy?
When the weather reflects a character’s feelings / mood
What is a motif?
A dominant idea of a text. Something that is used to develop a theme. It is revisited throughout a text, regularly.
What is hyperbole?
Exaggerating - making something seem bigger, better or worse than it really is.
What is tone?
The general attitude of a character or a writer
What is an oxymoron?
When two words that have opposite meanings are put together
What is onomatopoeia?
When a word sounds like the noise it makes.
What is sibilance?
A specific type of alliteration in which the ‘s’ sound is repeated in words.
What is a free verse?
Poetry with no formal structure
What is emotive language?
Words that make the reader feel an emotion.
What is caesura?
A break in the middle of a line of poetry caused by punctuation
What is consonance?
A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is a consonant
What is repetition?
When a word or phrase is repeated.
What is personification?
Giving something something human qualities
What is the mood?
The emotion conveyed in a text
What is zoomorphism?
Giving something or someone animal qualities
What is an imperative?
A command
What are rhyming couplets?
In poetry. Where two lines of the same length rhyme and complete a thought.
what is a protagonist?
The hero of the story
What is assonance?
A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is the vowel sound
What is an antagonist?
The villain of the story
What is a tricolon?
Three adjectives or phrases used in a row.
What is alliteration?
When consecutive words start with the same sound or letter.
What is a simile?
Comparing two things using ‘as’ or ‘like’
What is a direct adress?
When a writer ‘talks’ directly to the reader. Often relies on using the pronoun ‘you’
What is a rhetorical question?
A question that does not need an answer.
What is anecdote?
A short, amusing or interesting story about a real or imagined person
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things by saying something IS something else
What is enjambment?
When there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry so you read straight onto the next line
What is symbolism?
Where an object or person is used to symbolise something wider or other.
