Vocabulary

Question 1

Satire

Answer 1

Use of humour or ridicule to criticise

Question 2

Asyndeton

Answer 2

Lists without conjunctions

Question 3

Polysyndeton

Answer 3

Lists with conjunctions

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

Comparing using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

Saying one thing is another

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

Make object human

Question 7

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 7

Weather to create mood

Question 8

Pathos

Answer 8

Language to evoke pity

Question 9

Allusion

Answer 9

Reference to another literary work

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

Exaggerated statement

Question 11

Connotation

Answer 11

Associated meaning of word

Question 12

Characterisation

Answer 12

Built up description of character in text

Question 13

Semantic field

Answer 13

Words related in meaning

Question 14

Imagery

Answer 14

Visually descriptive language

Question 15

Conflict

Answer 15

Problem faced by characters

Question 16

Resolution

Answer 16

Point where conflict is resolved

Question 17

Foreshadowing

Answer 17

Clue about something later

Question 18

Juxtaposed

Answer 18

Two contrasting ideas

Question 19

Backstory

Answer 19

Insight into character’s past

Question 20

Exposition

Answer 20

Revelation of something

Question 21

Poetic justice

Answer 21

Good rewarded
Bad punished

Question 22

Melodrama

Answer 22

Exaggerated characters or events

Question 23

Motif

Answer 23

Repeated image or symbol

Question 24

Antithesis

Answer 24

Contrast of ideas in same grammatical structure

Question 25

Authorial intrusion

Answer 25

Where author pauses to speak directly to reader

Question 26

Allegory

Answer 26

Character/ events represent ideas about religion, morals or politics