Literary Techniques

Question 1

Onomatopoeia

Answer 1

• a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing (it creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described)
• makes the description more expressive and interesting.
• e.g.: The sack fell into the river with a splash - -
• language technique

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Reference to another work of literature e.g. Bible (language technique)

Question 3

Anthropomorphism

Answer 3

Giving human characteristics to the non-human e.g. an animal (language technique)

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

Contrasting words or ideas (language technique)

Question 5

Archaic

Answer 5

Old-fashioned language (language technique)

Question 6

Couplet

Answer 6

Two rhyming lines of a verse (structure)

Question 7

End-stopped line

Answer 7

A verse line with punctuation at the end (structure)

Question 8

Free verse

Answer 8

A verse without a fixed regular structure (structure)

Question 9

Quatrain

Answer 9

A rhyming stanza of four lines (structure)

Question 10

Refrain

Answer 10

Repetition of a phrase, line, or series of lines, like the chorus of a song (structure)

Question 11

Sonnet

Answer 11

A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter and can be Shakespearean or Petrarchan (structure)

Question 12

Syntax

Answer 12

Sentence structure e.g. simple, complex, directive, declarative

Question 13

Tetrameter

Answer 13

A line of 8 syllables

Question 14

Pentameter

Answer 14

A line of 10 syllables