stylistic language

Question 1

deviation

Answer 1

linguistic divergence from a norm (either a cultural norm or one set up in the text).

Question 2

Repititon

Answer 2

phonetic, lexical, syntactic repetition (e.g. rhyme, alliteration, repeated words or phrases, parallel syntactic sequences).

Question 3

graphological features

Answer 3

Graphological and/or typographical features – such as italics, split lines, asterisks, or gaps – may signal a subjective viewpoint

Question 4

temporal deixis

Answer 4

Temporal deictic markers such as ‘now/then’ ‘yesterday/today’ require you to know from whose perspective events are being perceived.

Question 5

person deixis

Answer 5

Person deixis encompasses those expressions that encode personal situation of discourse
participants, relative to each other.

Question 6

ambience

Answer 6

The combined, diffused effect of the atmosphere and the tone of a literary world.

Question 7

parallelism

Answer 7

A feature in a text in which a specific word, phrase or syntactic pattern is repeated.

Question 8

spatial deixis

Answer 8

Spatial deictic markers such as ‘this/that’, ‘come/go’, ‘here/there’ require you to know from whose perspective events are being perceived.

Question 9

deviation

Answer 9

The linguistic divergence from a norm, either conventional or set up by the prior text.

Question 10

boulomaic modality

Answer 10

Signals need or desire. Look out for: boulomaic modal lexical verbs (‘want’, ‘wish’, ‘hope’)