Reoccurring techniques

Question 1

What is an Epigram?

Answer 1

• Short witty saying that sheds light on a given situation often ironic

Question 1

What are Epigrams used?

Answer 1

• ‘the truth is rarely pure and never simple.’
• ‘style, not sincerity is the vital thing.’
• ‘never speak disrespectfully of society…only people who can’t get into it do that.’

Question 2

What is a Collocation?

Answer 2

• a predictable combination of words
• so a disrupted collocation is when someone says something unpredictable

Answer 3

‘her hair has turned quite gold from grief’
‘she looks quite twenty years younger’