Sem 1 Exam Prep

Question 1

What are the 5 prosodic features?
(SPITV)

Answer 1

Stress - Degree of strength used to produce words

Pitch - Highness or lowness of a sound

Intonation - Pattern of pitch changes in a sentence; rising or falling

Tempo - Speed

Volume - Loud or quiet

Question 2

What is a PQC statement

Answer 2

• Point - Language feature chosen and why it’s used
• Quote - Example of it used
• Connection - How does it connect to the speech.

Question 3

What is a vocative?

Answer 3

A formulaic vocative is utilized to show that someone is addressing someone else directly in a speech or writing.

Examples:
- “John” in “John, wanna get some Chinese?”

• “Lily” in “Oh my gosh, Lily, did you pass the exam?”

Question 4

What are the 6 types of phonological patterning?
(AACORR)

Answer 4

The 6 types or phonological patterning are:

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhythm
• Rhyme

Question 5

What is alliteration and assonance?

Answer 5

• Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence.

Example:
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

• Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound throughout a sentence.

Example:
“Fire at the private eye hired to pry in my business.”

Question 6

What is consonance and onomatopoeia?

Answer 6

• Consonance is the repetition of a consonant sound in the start, middle or end of the word.

Example:
“Bilbo Baggins”

• Onomatopoeia are words that sound like what they mean.

Example:
“Boom” can be used to represent a bomb.

Question 7

What is rhythm and rhyme?

Answer 7

• Rhythm is the patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Example:
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

• Rhyme is a combination of assonance and consonance, or less commonly, assonance and alliteration.

Example:
“There was an old man of the Cape
Who made himself garments of crepe. When asked, ‘Do they tear?’
He replied, ‘Here and there;
But they’re perfectly splendid for shape.”

Question 8

What is patterning and code-switching?

(Both are style/phonological patterning techniques)

Answer 8

• Patterning is a repeated presence of a language feature.
• Code-Switching is when speakers or writers switch between different languages or dialects in a single conversation or text, reaffirming the social and cultural background of the speaker or character to the audience.

Example:
- “Hello! ¿Cómo estás?”

(“¿Cómo estás?” means “How are you?” in Spanish)

Question 9

What are the 7 figurative language techniques?

(SMPAIPL)

Answer 9

• Simile
  (comparing two or more things with ‘like’ or ‘as’)
• Metaphor
  (comparing two or more things WITHOUT ‘like’ or ‘as’)
• Personification
  (non-human objects are given human qualities)
• Animation
  (the use of language to bring the text to life)
• Irony
  (when the speaker or character says something that contradicts to what they are trying to convey or the current circumstances)
• Pun
  (Words or phrases that have a double-meaning.
  Example:
  “That dreamers often lie.”)
• Lexical Ambiguity
  (A word or expression with more than one meaning)