Techniques and Metalanguage

Question 1

Composer

Answer 1

Creator of Text

Question 2

Narrative perspective

Answer 2

First, Second and Third

Question 3

Tense

Answer 3

Past, Present and Future

Question 4

Conflict

Answer 4

What is the main conflict of the text

Question 5

Imagery Types

Answer 5

Visual
Auditory
Olfactory/smell
Gustatory/taste
Tactile/touch
Kinaesthetic

Question 6

Allusion

Answer 6

Call something to mind without directly saying it

Question 7

Colloquial Language

Answer 7

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Question 8

Connotations

Answer 8

e.g. Disciplin is a negative connotation

Question 9

Dialogue

Answer 9

Words shared between characters

Question 10

Contrast

Answer 10

Differences highlighted between things

Question 11

Comparison

Answer 11

e.g. smile bright as sunshine

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

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Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

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Question 14

Juxtaposition

Answer 14

Placement of two or more things side by side, often in order to bring out their differences

Question 15

Alliteration

Answer 15

Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 16

Salience

Answer 16

Quality of being particularly noticeable or important; prominence

Question 17

Motif

Answer 17

Dominant or recurring idea in an artistic work

Question 18

Hyperbole

Answer 18

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 19

Verbal Irony

Answer 19

Irony that is verbal

Question 20

Meioses

Answer 20

Understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is.

Question 21

Parody

Answer 21

Imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

Question 22

Oxymoron

Answer 22

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful)

Question 23

Camera shots

Answer 23

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Question 24

Rhetorical Questions

Answer 24

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Question 25

Repitition

Answer 25

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Question 26

Pathos

Answer 26

Stimulates or evokes sympathy or pity

Question 27

Ethos

Answer 27

Represents credibility or ethical appeal - involves persuasion

Question 28

Logos

Answer 28

Logic, reasoning and rationality to convince of their perspective

Question 29

Triadic Structure

Answer 29

(clusters of 3) e.g. I ask, I urge, I Implore