Language Techniques

Question 1

Contrast

Answer 1

• Draw attention to two opposing ideas, people or themes => Make us think about them

Question 2

Juxtaposition

Answer 2

• Putting two contrasting things closely together to make the differences between two things more obvious

Question 3

Intertextuality

Answer 3

• Draw upon audiences’ background knowledge
• Composer mentions something outside the text that audiences know

Question 4

Allusion

Answer 4

• Can be explicitly (rõ ràng) or implicitly (ngầm hiểu)
• Highly symbolic
• Simplify complex ideas and emotions by referring to something that is well known for particular reasons

Question 5

Imagery

Answer 5

• Gives audience freedom to imagine a scene or experience
• Shape the mood, tone, or atmosphere
• Vivid, descriptive languages refer to senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, sound)

Question 6

Emotive language

Answer 6

• Draw particular emotions out of audiences

Question 7

Descriptive language

Answer 7

• Add greater detail for the audience to understand

Question 8

Symbolism

Answer 8

• The use of symbols
• Simplify complex ideas for audiences, make reference to well known symbol

Question 9

Motifs

Answer 9

• Repeated symbols

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

• Mention a word literally but not meant literally
• Help people think in a new way

Question 11

Simile

Answer 11

• Easier for people to picture things

Question 12

Personification

Answer 12

• Make life more vibrant, bring life to scene

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

• Humorously in satires to make absurd situations
• Draw audiences’ attention to absurdity of a character, group, event, …

Question 14

Repitition

Answer 14

• Emphasise an object being repeated

Question 15

Alliteration

Answer 15

• Repeated consonant sounds across a series of words
• Create atmosphere, tone, characterise an object or thing

Question 16

Rhetorical question

Answer 16

• Make readers think about their problems/ issues/ object
• Persuade in speeches and advertising

Question 17

Cliches

Answer 17

• Indicate insincerity - not understand what they speak or write

Question 18

Paradox

Answer 18

• A weird, or unconventional way to convey a thoughtful notion
• Use negative of negative form

Question 19

Puns

Answer 19

• Make the writing humorous, clever and memorable

Question 20

Irony
- Say this one but mean another

Answer 20

• Creates humour
• Highlight a contradiction between what is and what should be

Question 21

Euphemism

Answer 21

• Indicate the sensitivity on part of the composers
• Indicate that writers cannot communicate plainly, truthfully

Question 22

Parody

Answer 22

• Grab attention, appeal to our sense of humour
• Ridicule the original texts which they are based on

Question 23

Jargon

Answer 23

• Make a text more professional, knowledgeable, authority, important or authenticity.

Question 24

Register

Answer 24

• Level of formality of language

Question 25

Colloquial language

Answer 25

- Mixed use of formal languages and informal languages (slangs/ swear words, contractions)

Question 26

Person

Answer 26

1,2,3

Question 27

Commands/Imperatives

Answer 27

- Convey feeling of urgency

Question 28

Tone

Answer 28

- Attitude of the composer want to express to the audiences

Question 28

Connotations (hàm ý)

Answer 28

- Brings more meaning to the text

Question 29

Statistical information/Expert Opinion

Answer 29

- Give more scientific information

Question 30

Mood

Answer 30

- Feeling evoked by the writing