Language

Question 1

What is a simple sentence?

Answer 1

A main/ independent clause.

Question 2

What is a compound sentence?

Answer 2

A sentence that makes sense on its own.

Question 3

What is a complex sentence?

Answer 3

A sentence that doesn’t make sense on its own.

Question 4

What does futility mean?

Answer 4

Pointlessness.

Question 5

What does Sibilance mean?

Answer 5

Repeated ‘s’ sound.

Question 6

What is a assonance?

Answer 6

Repeated vowel sounds e.g. slowly moaning.

Question 7

What is the effect of sibilance?

Answer 7

Soothing, calming effect
Sinister foreboding –> snake
Anger, seething

Question 8

What does Visceral mean?

Answer 8

Based on deep feeling and emotional reactions.

Question 9

What does ‘Wetter’ stand for?

Answer 9

Writing
Imbedded Evidence
Technique
Terminology
Effect
Response

Question 10

What is an imperative verb?

Answer 10

command your audience

Question 11

What is emotive language?

Answer 11

Emotional language

Question 12

What is chiaroscuro?

Answer 12

Artists use of light and dark

Question 13

Litotes meaning

Answer 13

under exaggerating an effect

Question 14

What does Philanthropy?

Answer 14

love of people/ community

Question 15

Misanthropy meaning

Answer 15

hates people/ society

Question 16

Benefactor meaning

Answer 16

someone who gives lots of money/ help to someone

Question 17

Zoomorphism meaning

Answer 17

when humans are given animal characteristics

Question 18

Bildungsroman meaning

Answer 18

It is a novel when the main character changes and evolves throughout the novel.

Question 19

First-person narrator

Answer 19

their perspective of the story.

Question 20

Name a disadvantage and an advantage to first-person narrative.

Answer 20

only their opinion

more information on the main character and what they think.

Question 21

What is a precocious child?

Answer 21

A stuck up child who thinks a lot of themselves.

Question 22

What is pathetic Fallacy?

Answer 22

Where the writer portrays nature as having human emotions.

Question 23

What is an allegory?

Answer 23

A type of story with a moral

Question 24

When writing a complaint letter, what do you need to explain?

Answer 24

What the problem is
Why it is a problem
What you want the recipient to do about it

Question 25

What is an extended metaphor?

Answer 25

It is a technique that explains a complex idea in simple terms to evoke emotions and imagery when writing about something abstract.