Literacy Language Features

Question 1

What is a pathetic fallacy?

Answer 1

When the weather reflects a character’s feelings / mood

Question 2

What is a motif?

Answer 2

A dominant idea of a text. Something that is used to develop a theme. It is revisited throughout a text, regularly.

Question 3

What is hyperbole?

Answer 3

Exaggerating - making something seem bigger, better or worse than it really is.

Question 4

What is tone?

Answer 4

The general attitude of a character or a writer

Question 5

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 5

When two words that have opposite meanings are put together

Question 6

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 6

When a word sounds like the noise it makes.

Question 7

What is sibilance?

Answer 7

A specific type of alliteration in which the ‘s’ sound is repeated in words.

Question 8

What is a free verse?

Answer 8

Poetry with no formal structure

Question 9

What is emotive language?

Answer 9

Words that make the reader feel an emotion.

Question 10

What is caesura?

Answer 10

A break in the middle of a line of poetry caused by punctuation

Question 11

What is consonance?

Answer 11

A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is a consonant

Question 12

What is repetition?

Answer 12

When a word or phrase is repeated.

Question 13

What is personification?

Answer 13

Giving something something human qualities

Question 14

What is the mood?

Answer 14

The emotion conveyed in a text

Question 15

What is zoomorphism?

Answer 15

Giving something or someone animal qualities

Question 16

What is an imperative?

Answer 16

A command

Question 17

What are rhyming couplets?

Answer 17

In poetry. Where two lines of the same length rhyme and complete a thought.

Question 18

what is a protagonist?

Answer 18

The hero of the story

Question 19

What is assonance?

Answer 19

A specific type of alliteration in which the dominant sound of repeated words is the vowel sound

Question 20

What is an antagonist?

Answer 20

The villain of the story

Question 21

What is a tricolon?

Answer 21

Three adjectives or phrases used in a row.

Question 22

What is alliteration?

Answer 22

When consecutive words start with the same sound or letter.

Question 23

What is a simile?

Answer 23

Comparing two things using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Question 24

What is a direct adress?

Answer 24

When a writer ‘talks’ directly to the reader. Often relies on using the pronoun ‘you’

Question 26

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 26

A question that does not need an answer.

Question 27

What is anecdote?

Answer 27

A short, amusing or interesting story about a real or imagined person

Question 28

What is a metaphor?

Answer 28

Comparing two things by saying something IS something else

Question 29

What is enjambment?

Answer 29

When there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry so you read straight onto the next line

Question 30

What is symbolism?

Answer 30

Where an object or person is used to symbolise something wider or other.