Group 4

Question 1

Litotes

Answer 1

A form of verbal irony which understatement is used to emphasise a point. It uses a double negative. For example, the weather isn’t bad today.

Question 2

Imagery

Answer 2

The use of vivid description and figurative language, usually rich in sensory words, to create pictures or images in reader’s minds.

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

Exaggeration of a rhetorical device or a figure of speech I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.

Question 4

In Medias Res

Answer 4

Latin roughly translated to “into the middle of things.” It describes a story that begins in the middle, at a crucial point in the action.

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

A situation with contrast between expectation and reality. The difference of what something is seen to be to its actual meaning.

Question 5

Juxtaposition

Answer 5

Two things being placed together with a contrasting effect. For example, ‘all is fair in love and war.’

Question 6

Malapropism

Answer 6

The mistaken use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance.
e.g. “allegory” instead of “alligator,”

Question 7

Hypophora

Answer 7

A figure of speech when a speaker raises a question then answers it.Should students wear uniforms for school?

Question 8

Isocolon

Answer 8

A structural similarity between lines according to words or syllables.

e.g rank and file