A Level

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Metaphor to deliver broad message

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Same beginning letter in a sentence

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

Indirect reference in speech

Question 4

Archaic

Answer 4

Old fashioned Lang

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words

Question 6

Ambiguous

Answer 6

More than one interpretation

Question 7

Ballad

Answer 7

Story telling poem- short stanzas

Question 8

Blank verse

Answer 8

Regular metrical but Unrhymed

Question 9

Caesura

Answer 9

Pause in the middle of line

Question 10

Characterisation

Answer 10

Construction of fictional character

Question 11

Cliché

Answer 11

Overused opinion

Question 12

Colloquial

Answer 12

Everyday language

Question 13

Conceit

Answer 13

Metaphor that compares two unlikely things

Question 14

Contexts

Answer 14

Circumstances that form the background

Question 15

Devices

Answer 15

Form of words producing an effect in speech

Question 16

Dialogue

Answer 16

Conversation

Question 17

Diadactic

Answer 17

Moral instruction

Question 18

Dramatic irony

Answer 18

Lang that signifies the opposite

Question 19

Dramatic monologue

Answer 19

Narrative speech

Question 20

Dramatic tension

Answer 20

Creates an atmosphere

Question 21

Ellipses

Answer 21

…

Question 22

Enjambment

Answer 22

No pause at the end of a line

Question 23

First person

Answer 23

Tells story

Question 24

Third person

Answer 24

Story talked about

Question 25

Hyperbole

Answer 25

Exaggerated statement

Question 26

Irony

Answer 26

Contrast between expectations

Question 27

Metaphor

Answer 27

Something regarded as another

Question 28

Mock heroic

Answer 28

Parodies that mock stereotypes of heroes

Question 29

Monosyllabic

Answer 29

One syllable

Question 30

Motif

Answer 30

Recurring idea

Question 31

Multiple narrators

Answer 31

Many people telling story

Question 32

Narrative stance

Answer 32

Their view

Question 33

Octave

Answer 33

8 lines of iambic pentameter

Question 34

Omniscient narrator

Answer 34

Narrator knows everything

Question 35

Oxymoron

Answer 35

Figure of speech that contradicts - next to each other “falsely true”

Question 36

Pace

Answer 36

Moving story forward with speed

Question 37

Paradox

Answer 37

Self contradictory statement

Question 38

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 38

Environment reflects mood

Question 39

Pathos

Answer 39

Evoking pity

Question 40

Persona

Answer 40

Aspect of someone’s character

Question 41

Personification

Answer 41

Making an object seem human

Question 42

Perspective

Answer 42

Peoples insight

Question 43

Protagonist

Answer 43

Central character

Question 44

Pun

Answer 44

Jokes where words sound alike

Question 45

Quatrain

Answer 45

4 line stanza

Question 46

Rhetoric

Answer 46

Persuasive speaking

Question 47

Rhyming couplet

Answer 47

Rhyming pair of lines

Question 48

Rhythm

Answer 48

Regular repeated pattern

Question 49

Satire

Answer 49

Criticised people’s stupidity

Question 50

Setting

Answer 50

Place of surrounding

Question 51

Simile

Answer 51

Comparison of similarities using like or as

Question 52

Soliloquy

Answer 52

Characters thoughts in a speech

Question 53

Sonnet

Answer 53

14 lines using formal rhyme scheme

Question 54

Staging

Answer 54

Presenting a play

Question 55

Stanza

Answer 55

Paragraph In a poem

Question 56

Stream of consciousness

Answer 56

Reactions to an event

Question 57

Suspense

Answer 57

State of anxiety

Question 58

Syntax

Answer 58

Structure of words in a sentence

Question 59

Theme

Answer 59

Recurring subject

Question 60

Tone

Answer 60

Attitude in writing

Question 61

Tragic hero

Answer 61

Protagonist of a tragedy, destined for downfall

Question 62

Unreliable narrator

Answer 62

Can’t be trusted

Question 63

Parody

Answer 63

Imitation of things

Question 64

Diction

Answer 64

How they speak

Question 65

Symbolism

Answer 65

Occurs a few times , obvious