LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES

Question 1

plosive alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of sound B and P at the beginning of words

Question 2

sibilance

Answer 2

repetition of sound S and SH at the beginning of words

Question 3

metaphor

Answer 3

comparing something to another by saying it is something else

Question 4

personification

Answer 4

giving an inanimate object human qualities

Question 5

onomatopoeia

Answer 5

words that sound like what they are

Question 6

connotation

Answer 6

the associated meanings of a word

Question 7

semantic field

Answer 7

a group of words suggesting a theme

e.g a semantic fied of war: bullets, guns, army

Question 8

archetype

Answer 8

a familiar/traitional character used seen in many stories across different cultures

Question 9

pathetic fallacy

Answer 9

weather reflects the mood or actions in the story

Question 10

declaritive sentence

Answer 10

a statement

Question 11

linear narrative

Answer 11

narrative that follows a straight line

Question 12

non-linear narrative

Answer 12

often starts in the middle of the story and then goes to the beginning
may involve flashback

Question 13

cyclical narrative

Answer 13

a story that ends where it begins

Question 14

motif

Answer 14

reoccuring ideas and themes throughout the story

Question 15

asyndetic list

Answer 15

a list without conjunctions and connectives

Question 16

climax

Answer 16

the point of greatest tension in the story

Question 17

foreshadowing

Answer 17

hints of what is to come in the story

Question 18

syndetic list

Answer 18

with and, and, and