Visual metalanguage

Question 1

Solecism

Answer 1

Bad manners, grammatical mistake

Question 2

Circumlocution

Answer 2

Use of many words to be vague

Question 2

Dramatic Irony

Answer 2

When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not

Question 3

Juxtaposition

Answer 3

The act or placement of two things (usually abstract concepts, though it can also refer to physical objects) near each other

Question 4

Anachronism

Answer 4

Placing something out of its proper historical time period

Question 5

Enjambment

Answer 5

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Question 6

Magical Realism

Answer 6

A literary genre in which magical elements are a natural part of an otherwise mundane, realistic environment

Question 7

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 7

attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature

Question 8

Zeugma

Answer 8

A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses. (I lost my car keys and my temper) “Lost” applies to two things

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. (e.g the word hand in “offer your hand in marriage”; mouths in “hungry mouths to feed”; and wheels referring to a car.)

Question 10

Euphemism

Answer 10

A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

Question 11

Neologism

Answer 11

A newly coined word or expression

Question 12

Brainstorm 3 ways Atwood endorses/challenges/marginalises storytelling

Answer 12

Atwood approves storytelling as a tool essential for Grace’s survival

Atwood espouses personal storytelling as foundational to individual sense-of-self

Atwood advcoates for storytelling as the most true and acurate depiction of women’s lives in an adrocentric society.

Question 13

Litotes

Answer 13

Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (not bad, not the brightest bulb, not uncommon)

Question 14

Paradox

Answer 14

A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well-founded or true.

Question 15

asyndeton

Answer 15

the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence, as in I came, I saw, I conquered.

Question 16

Chiasmus

Answer 16

A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order

Question 17

Patriarchal language structures

Answer 17

How men control the way words are arranged and spoken.

Question 18

Refigured

Answer 18

to figure again, to represent in a different shape or form

Question 19

Emancipation

Answer 19

the act of freeing a person from another person’s control:

Question 20

Meta

Answer 20

referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.