Section A

Question 1

What is imagery?

Answer 1

A general term for descriptive language that helps the reader to imagine something that’s is being written about

Question 2

What is a Metaphor?

Answer 2

A form of imagery where one thing is described as being something else

Question 3

What is a simile?

Answer 3

A form of imagery where one thing is described as being similar to something else, using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 4

What is Personification?

Answer 4

A form of imagery where a non-living object is described using human actions, features or emotions

Question 5

What is colour imagery?

Answer 5

Use of colours to form part of a description

Question 6

What is an adjective?

Answer 6

Words that describe what a person, place, thing or emotion is like

Question 7

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 7

A question posed to the audience which requires them to think about there own answer or response

Question 8

What is a semantic field?

Answer 8

A group of words that belong to the same topic area / theme

Question 9

What is an imperative?

Answer 9

A direct command, formed with the verb as the first word

Question 10

What is a verb?

Answer 10

Words that name actions or states of being. Every sentence must contain at least one

Question 11

What are modal verbs?

Answer 11

Words which indicate possibility or permission: can / could / must / may / might / shall / should / will / would

Question 12

What is allusion?

Answer 12

A reference to something outside of the text e.g. a literary work, mythological figure, advertising slogan etc.

Question 13

What does establish mean?

Answer 13

to set up or introduce a topic / setting / character at the beginning

Question 14

What does develop mean ?

Answer 14

to build up details about a topic / setting / character within a text

Question 15

What is a cyclical structure?

Answer 15

when the ending of a text reflects the start

Question 16

What is contrast?

Answer 16

present things that are opposite to each other.

Question 17

What does chronological mean?

Answer 17

in time order (e.g. a chronological story structure = told in the order which it happened

Question 18

What is a flashback?

Answer 18

When a story goes back in time to a moment in a characters past.

Question 19

What is a zoom in?

Answer 19

to move from a broad, general description to a more specific area

Question 20

What is a zoom out ?

Answer 20

to move from a small focus area to a broader, more general description

Question 21

What are internal thoughts?

Answer 21

Access to the characters inner personal thoughts and feelings; being metaphorically ‘in the characters head’

Question 22

What is external action/description?

Answer 22

Description of things that are happening in the outside world of the character; things that a person in the characters world would be able to perceive

Question 23

What is a dual perspective?

Answer 23

a story told from two different narrative viewpoints / two different characters experiences

Question 24

What are links back?

Answer 24

when an idea in the text reminds us of something that read earlier in the piece

Question 25

What is foreground?

Answer 25

to highlight an idea or make it stand out in the text

Question 26

What is foreshadow?

Answer 26

to hint at something that will (or might) happen later in the text

Question 27

what is repitition?

Answer 27

including a significant word, phrase or idea in multiple occasions

Question 28

what is repitition?

Answer 28

including a significant word, phrase or idea in multiple occasions