Technique definitions

Question 1

Metonymy

Answer 1

Metonymy is a thing or concept referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. eg. suit for businessman

Question 2

Internal Rhyme

Answer 2

Is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.

Question 3

Characterisation

Answer 3

Reveals a character’s personality. Characters may be revealed using their actions, words or thoughts or other characters’ words or thoughts.

Question 4

Composition

Answer 4

The body of important features established by the author.

Question 5

Oxymoron

Answer 5

Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas or words are joined to create an effect. eg. Cruel kindness or living death.

Question 6

Caesura

Answer 6

Is a break in a verse where one phrase ends and the following phrase begins. eg. hyphen/dash or colon

Question 7

Juxtaposition

Answer 7

Juxtaposition is where two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

Question 8

Volta

Answer 8

is a dramatic turn of thought or argument

Question 9

Free Verse

Answer 9

Does not use consistent meter patterns or rhyme therefore tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.

Question 10

Foot

Answer 10

A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable

Question 11

Meter

Answer 11

Is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem

Question 12

Soliloquy

Answer 12

An act of speaking their thoughts aloud when by themselves.

Question 13

Bildungsroman

Answer 13

Traces the origins and development of a central character across time.

Question 14

Salience

Answer 14

The quality of being particularly noticeable or important

Question 15

Blank Verse

Answer 15

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameters.

Question 16

Anaphora

Answer 16

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line of a poem.

Question 17

Epistrophe

Answer 17

The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

Question 18

Refrain

Answer 18

Is a verse, a line, a set, or a group of lines that appears at the end of stanza.

Question 19

Motif

Answer 19

A central or recurring image or action in a literary work that is shared by other works.

Question 20

Aside

Answer 20

A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters.

Question 21

Extended Metaphor

Answer 21

Refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.