Language Features

Question 1

What is a series words, phases or clauses that always come in three?

Answer 1

Tricolon

Question 2

What is the impact of a tricolon?

Answer 2

emphasis and rhythm

Question 3

What pronouns are used in inclusive language

Answer 3

“We” and “us”

Question 4

What is the effect of inclusive language on the reader?

Answer 4

Empowerment, value and inclusion.

Question 5

What impact does repetition have on writing?

Answer 5

It emphasises what is being repeated

Question 6

How does repetition impact a reader?

Answer 6

It makes an idea stand out

Question 7

What is the effect of first person perspective on a reader?

Answer 7

Creates intimacy and a personal experience of the character

Question 8

What is the impact of a short sentence to the writing?

Answer 8

quickens the pace, makes a point.

Question 9

What is the effect of humour in writing to a reader?

Answer 9

It makes a serious point more relatable

Question 10

What are the 5 kinds of imagery?

Answer 10

Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, Tactile, Gustatory

Question 11

What is the impact of visual imagery in writing?

Answer 11

Creates a more in-depth description of something

Question 12

What is it called when a writer uses a physical object to describe something more abstract?

Answer 12

Symbolism

Question 13

What is the effect of symbolism?

Answer 13

To create hidden meaning

Question 14

What is it called when one thing is described as something that is not literally applicable to it?

Answer 14

Metaphor

Question 15

What is it called when a non-human object is given human characteristics?

Answer 15

Personification

Question 16

What is the purpose of personification in writing?

Answer 16

To make the reader empathise with the object

Question 17

What language feature is similar to personification?

Answer 17

Pathetic Fallacy

Question 18

What is it called when one thing is compared to another?

Answer 18

A simile

Question 19

What is a list of things with a conjunction such as “and” to seperate them?

Answer 19

Polysyndeton

Question 20

What is a list of things with nothing separating them?

Answer 20

Asyndeton

Question 21

What is the effect of polysyndeton and asyndeton in writing?

Answer 21

Endlessness and rhythm

Question 22

What is the effect of a pun in writing?

Answer 22

Makes a serious point more relatable.

Question 23

What is it called when a writer describes a concept by using language that would usually mean the opposite?

Answer 23

Irony

Question 24

What is the impact of irony?

Answer 24

Humour, makes a serious point more relatable

Question 25

What language device is used to give commands, instructions or warning?

Answer 25

Imperative verb

Question 26

What effect does an imperative verb have in writing?

Answer 26

Authority and urgency

Question 27

What is accumulation?

Answer 27

Listing

Question 28

What is it called when the difference between two objects is highlighted?

Answer 28

Contrast

Question 29

What is an adjective?

Answer 29

Describing word

Question 30

What is the meaning of hyperbole?

Answer 30

To exaggerate

Question 31

What pronouns are used in third person persepctive?

Answer 31

"he", "she", "they"

Question 32

What pronouns are used in second person perspective?

Answer 32

"you", "yours"

Question 33

What is it called if it's in a third persons perspective but specifically focusing on their fears, mind and emotions?

Answer 33

Third person limited narration

Question 34

What is it called when it's the speakers/writers attitudes toward the world?

Answer 34

Morality

Question 35

What is a short, personal story from the writer called?

Answer 35

Anecdote

Question 36

What is it called when two contradictory words are paired together?

Answer 36

Oxymoron

Question 37

What is it called when two things are placed together with a contrasting effect?

Answer 37

Juxtaposition

Question 38

What is it called when a writer indirectly expresses an idea or experience?

Answer 38

Allusion

Question 39

What is a form of repetition that is used at the beginning of a sentence or phrase?

Answer 39

Anaphora

Question 40

What is the impact of anaphora in writing?

Answer 40

Rhythm and prominence

Question 41

What is the impact of an elongated sentence in writing?

Answer 41

Endlessness, vastness

Question 42

What is the constant occurrence of the same sound or letter in a sentence called?

Answer 42

Alliteration

Question 43

What is it called when a writer/speaker raises a question and then immediately answers answer?

Answer 43

Hypophora

Question 44

Why are rhetorical questions used in writing?

Answer 44

To hook the reader

Question 45

What is it called when words are used to mimic sounds?

Answer 45

Onomatopoeia

Question 46

What is it called when human-characteristics are given to an animal, god or object?

Answer 46

Athropramorphism

Question 47

What is it called when animal qualities get assigned to a non-animal subject?

Answer 47

Zoomorphism

Question 48

What is the impact of anthropramorphism and zoomorphism in writing?

Answer 48

imaginative images