Subject Terminology

Question 1

What is caesura?

Answer 1

When punctuation is used to make the text sound like natural dialogue- with hyphens for - you know - pauses and stuff.

Question 2

Which narrator sees all and is all knowing?

Answer 2

An omniscient narrator

Question 3

What is the structure of a Shakespearean Sonnet?

Answer 3

ABABCDCDEFEFGG with 10 syllables

Question 4

If a word has more than one syllable it is

a) Polysyllabic
b) Multisyllabic
c) Duosyllabic

Answer 4

a) Polysyllabic

Question 5

If you can decide
What type of poem this is
Then well done indeed

Answer 5

Haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables)

Question 6

Flashback and flashforward

Answer 6

Analepsis and Prolepsis

Question 7

What is the difference between form and structure?

Answer 7

Form is about the layout (e.g. rhyming pattern, type). Structure is about the development of the message/ story and why it is done in a certain place.

Question 8

When something is presented as great but actually isn’t

Answer 8

Bathos/ anticlimax

Question 9

How many syllables in iambic pentameter?

Answer 9

10 syllables a line

Question 10

Give some connotations of the word circle

Answer 10

hope, eternity, purity, fixed, endless, barrier

Question 11

A complex sentence is a main clause joined to a subordinate clause with a connective or semi-colon
A compound sentence is a main clause joined to a subordinate clauses with commas
True or false?

Answer 11

False.
A complex sentence is a main clause joined to a subordinate clauses with commas e.g. “The cat, who was very fat, sat on the mat” (“The cat sat on the mat” being the main clause).
A compound sentence is a main clause joined to a subordinate clause with a connective or semi-colon e.g. “The dog loved her family BUT hated the vets.”

Question 12

Hope is what type of noun?
Europe is what type of noun?
Herd is what type of noun?
Tree is what type of noun?

Answer 12

Hope is an abstract noun
Europe is a proper noun
Herd is a collective noun
Tree is a concrete/ common noun

Question 13

is this - the sentence you are reading - and example of a parenthetic clause?

Answer 13

Yes, a parenthetic clause is a subordinate clause isolated by hyphens, commas or brackets.

Question 14

A superlative is the moST
A comparative is moRE
True or false?

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 15

When the audience know something that the character(s) do not

Question 16

An asyndetic list includes apples, cabbages and carrots.
A syndetic list includes apples, cabbages and carrots.

Which is correct?

Answer 16

An asyndetic list includes apples, cabbages, carrots.
A syndetic list includes apples, cabbages and carrots.

The syndetic list was correct

Question 17

bread roll, bap, bun, cob etc are examples of idiolect or sociolect?

Answer 17

Sociolect. Bread rolls are called certain things in certain areas. Idiolect is personal and not influenced by society

Question 18

What is the difference between an interruption and an interjection?

Answer 18

An interruption involves one person stopping the other from talking to convey their point. Much more rude.
An interjection interrupts by agreeing or disagreeing, which is slightly more polite.

Question 19

Colloquial language can also be known as…

Answer 19

Informal register

Question 20

Fill the blanks:
The politeness principle has 3 rules. 1 - Don’t ______ what you think of _______. 2 - Provide ______ for others 3 - Make the ________ feel ____

Answer 20

Impose
Others
Choice
Receiver
Good

Question 21

Resolved endings…

Unresolved endings…

Answer 21

…answer all questions and leave the reader satisfied

…leave main conflicts unanswered with cliffhangers

Question 22

Which ending type gives a glimpse to the future of the main character(s)?

Answer 22

Crystal Ball

Question 23

A circular narrative definition and what it can also be known as

Answer 23

A tie back ending. When the end hints back towards the beginning

Question 24

An ending which is based on the interpretation of the reader is…

Answer 24

An implied ending. This leads the reader to ask questions such as “Did they or not? Who was it?”