GG+AOI: Unseen Extract, Language

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Where the character often stand for abstract concepts in a narrative. Generally, they teach a lesson by means of an interesting story.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A reference to something in literature, history, mythology, religious texts etc., considered common knowledge.

Question 3

Ambiguity

Answer 3

A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. Ambiguous words or statements lead to vagueness and confusion and shape the basis for instance of unintentional humour.

Question 4

Analogy

Answer 4

A point by point comparison between two dissimilar things for the purpose of clarifying the less familiar, or a weakness of the character.

Question 5

Anastrophe

Answer 5

The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.

Question 6

Antagonist

Answer 6

The character or force that opposes the protagonist.

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

When ideas contrast or oppose one another; a semantic contrast in a text. Often used for emphasis.

Question 8

Archaism

Answer 8

A word that, over time, has fallen out of common usage.

Question 9

Binary Opposites

Answer 9

Elements of a text that hold opposite ends of a notional scale.

Question 10

Collocations

Answer 10

Words that, through usage, just naturally go together.

Question 11

Colloquialism

Answer 11

The use of informal language.

Question 12

Conceit

Answer 12

An elaborate figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things.

Question 13

Denotation

Answer 13

The precise literal meaning of a word, without emotional associations of overtones.

Question 14

Epigram

Answer 14

Any witted, pointed saying.

Question 15

Epigraph

Answer 15

A motto or quotation that appears at the beginning of a book.

Question 16

Epitaph

Answer 16

A brief literary piece that sums up the life of a dead person.

Question 17

Extended Metaphor

Answer 17

When a metaphor continues throughout a text with recurring references to the compared item.

Question 18

Homonym

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When one word has multiple meanings

Question 19

Hyperbole

Answer 19

Deliberate over-exaggeration for effect.

Question 20

Hypophora

Answer 20

When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer in a text.

Question 21

Irony

Answer 21

A contact between appearance and actuality.

Question 22

Verbal Irony

Answer 22

A writer says one thing but means something entirely different.

Question 23

Situational Irony

Answer 23

Occurs when something happens that is entirely different from what is expected.

Question 24

Dramatic Irony

Answer 24

Occurs when the reader knows information that characters do not.

Question 25

Lexis

Answer 25

Another word for the word.

Question 26

Field Specific Lexis

Answer 26

The language in a certain area.

Question 27

Lexical Bundle

Answer 27

A recurrent sequence of words or a collection of words that, through repetition of use, just naturally go together.

Question 28

Lexical Set

Answer 28

The selection of relative lexemes from a text.

Question 29

Monosyllabic Lexis

Answer 29

Words of one syllable.

Question 30

Polysyllabic Lexis

Answer 30

Words of two or more syllables.

Question 31

Litotes

Answer 31

Deliberate downplaying of things does effect.

Question 32

Metonymy

Answer 32

A figure of speech that substitutes the name of a related object, person or idea.

Question 33

Oxymoron

Answer 33

The use of apparently contradictory words in a phrase.

Question 34

Paradox

Answer 34

A statement or situation containing obvious contradictions.

Question 35

Parenthesis

Answer 35

An aside within a text created by sectioning off extra information between brackets, dashes or between two commas.

Question 36

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 36

When the environment or weather mirror the events in a novel.

Question 37

Periphrasis

Answer 37

The use of indirect and circumlocutory speech.

Question 38

Phonological Features

Answer 38

Any devises used that relate to sound.

Question 39

Post-modification

Answer 39

A descriptive technique where the descriptive words come after the thing they are describing.

Question 40

Pre-modification

Answer 40

A descriptive technique where the descriptive words come before the thing they are describing.

Question 41

Protagonist

Answer 41

The central character in a story.

Question 42

Satire

Answer 42

A literary technique in which foolish ideas or customers are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.

Question 43

Semantics

Answer 43

The meanings of words.

Question 44

Symbolism

Answer 44

Using figurative and metaphoric language, items or incident in a way that means that certain things represent other things.

Question 45

Synaesthesia

Answer 45

Language that is stimulative to the senses.

Question 46

Synecdoche

Answer 46

A metaphor that states that something is only small constituent part of itself, even though we commonly understand otherwise, e.g. a new set of wheels - car

Question 47

Gatsby:
Description that mimics Shakespeare, that adds pace to the novel.
Done to entice the reader, as many would not enjoy reading a novel about many unlikeable characters.

Answer 47

‘Daisy’s voice was full of money’

‘The fading glow on Jordan Baker’s face, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk’

Question 48

AoI:
Uses descriptive language that reads similar to Greek Literature.
This was very much a part of her culture

Answer 48

‘The suffused young slope of her breast to the line where it met a modest tulle tucker fastened with a single gardenia…dropped her eyes to the immense bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley on her knee’

‘In the cut of the dark blue celery gown rather than theatrically caught up under he bosom by a girdle with a large old-fashioned clasp’