Techniques- impact 2

Question 1

Ambiguity

Answer 1

Boosts audience interest as they are encouraged to make up their own mind about what is happening, or they become suspicious of what they have not been explicitly told

Question 2

Antithesis

Answer 2

Helps the audience define and comprehend complex ideas

Question 3

Archetype

Answer 3

Makes it easy for audiences to categorise the character, concept or object based on what they resemble in literature

Question 4

Atmostphere

Answer 4

Allows the audience to become immersed in a setting and empathise more fully with a person and their situation

Question 5

Characterisation

Answer 5

Assists the audience to understand characters, and how each character’s personality and perspectives can help drive the plot forward

Question 6

Cliché

Answer 6

Provokes a sense of familiarity in audiences

Question 7

Connotations

Answer 7

Create a particular atmosphere or tone

Question 8

Exclamation

Answer 8

Encourages the audience to take action, or consider certain aspects of the text

Question 9

Frame narrative

Answer 9

Can also heighten a sense of the differences between past and present or cause the audience to mistrust what the characters think and say

Question 10

Foil

Answer 10

Draw attention to and emphasises another character’s strengths and weaknesses

Question 11

Foreshadowing

Answer 11

Builds suspense and tension, highlights different ideas

Question 12

Figurative language

Answer 12

Builds imagery to deepen the audience’s understanding and help give power to words by using different emotional, visual and sensory connections

Question 13

Fractured sentences

Answer 13

Builds suspense, tension or a sense of urgency

Question 14

Icons

Answer 14

Allows the audience to recognise certain concepts or themes

Question 15

Metonymy

Answer 15

Enhances the audience’s engagement with the text, encouraging emotional and intellectual connections, and creating more memorable and powerful messages

Question 16

Modality

Answer 16

High modality can create a sense of urgency or action

Question 17

Omission

Answer 17

Leaves it up to the audience to
‘fill in the blank’ of what may have happened with their own imagination

Question 18

Syntax

Answer 18

Short and one-word sentences creating impact and urgency, while compound sentences are slower and usually found in more formal writing