Vocab

Question 1

Fetishism

Answer 1

Form of sexual behaviour in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, activity, part of the body.

Question 2

Male gaze

Answer 2

In feminist theory, male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts and in literature, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presets and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer

Question 3

Voyeurism

Answer 3

The practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity

Question 4

Objectification

Answer 4

Action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object

Question 5

Hypallage

Answer 5

When an adjective is put with a noun other than the one to which it refers e.g. ‘falling autumn shook the leaves’ -> falling is talking about the leaves, not autumn

Question 6

Parallel syntax

Answer 6

Device where adjacent sentences or clauses are grammatically identical or similar; this gives emphasis to the meaning and achieves a rhythmic pull that holds the attention of the reader e.g. ‘Theirs not to make reply / Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die

Question 7

Liminality

Answer 7

To be in a state of transition, in between two different states

Question 8

Right of passage

Answer 8

A ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person’s life, indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood

Question 9

Stream of consciousness

Answer 9

Narrative method that attempts to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind of a narrator