GCSE English:

Question 1

What is an Adjective?

Answer 1

Describes a noun.

Question 2

What is an Adverb?

Answer 2

Describes a verb or adjective.

Question 3

What is an Alliteration?

Answer 3

Repetition of the start of words.

Question 4

What is an Anaphora?

Answer 4

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning.

Question 5

What is an Antonym?

Answer 5

Opposite in meaning to another word.

Question 6

What is an Assonance?

Answer 6

Repetition of the vowel sound nearby words in a text.

Question 7

What is a Caesura?

Answer 7

Pause within a line.

Question 8

How does a Caesura get shown?

Answer 8

Through punctuation.

Question 9

What is a Colloquial language?

Answer 9

Social accent.

Question 10

What is a Conjunction?

Answer 10

Connects clauses.

Question 11

What is an example of Conjunction?

Answer 11

And.

Question 12

What is a Consonance?

Answer 12

Repetition of similar constant sounds in nearby words.

Question 13

What is an example of Consonance?

Answer 13

Sammy was clammy.

Question 14

What is a Couplet?

Answer 14

Two successive lines that often rhyme together.

Question 15

What is a Determiner?

Answer 15

Determines what is being spoken about.

Question 16

What is an example of Determiner?

Answer 16

The door.

Question 17

What is Emotive language?

Answer 17

Language associates with Emotion.

Question 18

What is Empathy?

Answer 18

Understanding feelings based on experience.

Question 19

What is Enjambment?

Answer 19

Lines that continue onto the next line or stanza.
Without punctuation or pause.

Question 20

What is form?

Answer 20

Structure or pattern.

Question 21

What is a Full Rhyme?

Answer 21

Sound is identical in words.

Question 22

What is an example of Full Rhyme?

Answer 22

Fat cat.

Question 23

What is Holistic?

Answer 23

Bigger picture of a theme.

Question 24

What is an iamb?

Answer 24

Unstressed syllable followed by stressed.

Question 25

What is an Imagery?

Answer 25

Language used to create an image.

Question 26

What is an example of iamb?

Answer 26

Delight.

Question 27

What is Internal rhyme?

Answer 27

Rhyme within a line.

Question 28

What is Irony?

Answer 28

Goes against the expectation.

Question 29

What is Juxtaposition?

Answer 29

Two opposite ideas.

Question 30

What is a Litotes?

Answer 30

Purposeful understandement.

Question 31

What is an example of Litote?

Answer 31

Not half bad.

Question 32

What is an Oxymoron?

Answer 32

Verb or noun described as the opposite.

Question 33

What is an example of an Oxymoron?

Answer 33

Slowly running.

Question 34

What is Pathetic Fallacy?

Answer 34

Weather reflecting the mood.

Question 35

What is Personification?

Answer 35

Gives living qualities to inaminate things.

Question 36

What is a Plosive?

Answer 36

Potent sound.

Question 37

What is an example of Plosive?

Answer 37

Tomb.

Question 38

What is a Pragmatic?

Answer 38

Practicle especially when making decisions.

Question 39

What is an example of Pragmatic?

Answer 39

Who do you think you are?

Question 40

What is a Preposition?

Answer 40

Describes the position of something.

Question 41

What is an example of Preposition?

Answer 41

In.

Question 42

What is a Pronoun?

Answer 42

Replaces a noun.

Question 43

What is a Prosody?

Answer 43

Pattern of a particular rhythm.

Question 44

What is a Quatrain?

Answer 44

Four-line stanza.

Question 45

What is a Quintain?

Answer 45

Five-line stanza.

Question 46

What is Sibilance?

Answer 46

Similar to alliteration but only dor 's' or 'sh' sounds.

Question 47

What is a Simile?

Answer 47

Compare something being similar using like or as.

Question 48

What is a Stanza?

Answer 48

Poetic version of a paragraph.

Question 49

What is a Superlative?

Answer 49

Highest degree or amount of something.

Question 50

What is a Tercet?

Answer 50

Three-line stanza.

Question 51

What is a Volta?

Answer 51

Drastic change in mood, tone or topic in a poem.