Language Analysis

Question 1

Onomatopoeia

Answer 1

Where a word actually looks or sounds like the sound it is intended to make.

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

The attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas.

Question 3

Alliteration

Answer 3

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in multiple words in a single line, sentence or phrase

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

Saying a word is something else

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

An extreme exaggeration specifically for literacy or rhetorical effect.

Question 7

Oxymoron

Answer 7

Combined two contradictory words with opposite meanings

Question 8

Rhetorical questions

Answer 8

A figured of speech in which a question is asked for a reason other than to get an answer.

Question 9

Imagery

Answer 9

Uses a vivid description that appeals to a readers senses to create an imagine or idea in their head

Question 10

Opinion

Answer 10

A belief not based on absolute certainty or positive knowledge but on what seems true, valid, or probable to one’s own mind

Question 11

Allusion

Answer 11

An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text

Question 12

Anaphora

Answer 12

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line of a poem, speech or sermon

Question 13

Catatonic reference

Answer 13

A word in a text that refers to another later in the text and you need to look forward to understand

Question 14

Semantic field

Answer 14

A group of words or expressions that are related in meaning

Question 15

Graphology

Answer 15

The study of graphemes and other features associated with the written medium, such as punctuation, paragraphing or spacing

Question 16

Mode

Answer 16

A particular form or variety of something

Question 17

Audience

Answer 17

The assembled spectators or listeners

Question 18

Field

Answer 18

Subject matter of the text

Question 19

Mixtape

Answer 19

A purpose or duty or the way something works

Question 20

Juxtaposition

Answer 20

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

Question 21

Connotes

Answer 21

Imply or suggest

Question 22

Hypophora

Answer 22

A figure of speech in which a speaker poses a question and answers it

Question 23

Auxiliary verb

Answer 23

Used along with a main verb to express tense, mood or voice

Question 24

Eye dialect

Answer 24

A writers use of deliberately nonstandard spelling

Question 25

Declarative sentence

Answer 25

Making a statement

Question 26

Noun types

Answer 26

Common- non specific person,place or thing Proper- serves as the name for a specific person,place or thing Abstract- refers to some thing non-physical Collective- used to name a group of soemthing

Question 28

Interrogative sentence

Answer 28

Asking a question

Question 29

Imperative sentence

Answer 29

Giving a command

Question 30

Exclamatory sentence

Answer 30

Giving an exclamation

Question 31

Conditional sentence

Answer 31

Expressing a condition

Question 32

positive face

Answer 32

the need to be accepted, ones self-esteem

Question 33

negative face

Answer 33

ones freedom to act

Question 34

positive politeness

Answer 34

appealing to positive face, making the individual feel good about themselves

Question 35

negative politeness

Answer 35

making the other person feel like they haven't been imposed upon or taken advantage of.

Question 36

transitive verb

Answer 36

followed by the object in a sentence

Question 37

intransitive verb

Answer 37

not followed by the object in a sentence

Question 38

asyndetic listing

Answer 38

a list with no conjunction- commas

Question 39

embedded clause

Answer 39

adds extra info to a sentence