Language Techniques

Question 1

Direct address

Answer 1

Makes the reader feel more involved in the text. Feel text is written for them

Question 2

Rhetorical question

Answer 2

Encourage a reader to consider a concept or idea

Question 3

Imperative

Answer 3

Makes the reader feel a advised or instructed on their actions they should take

Question 4

Facts and statistics

Answer 4

Makes the text feel authoritative, accurate and believable. They serve an evidential purpose.

Question 5

Adjectives

Answer 5

Helps to depict emotions, people and place.

Question 6

Repetition

Answer 6

Makes the text more memorable. Reinforces ideas.

Question 7

Humour

Answer 7

Makes the text more engaging and interesting to read

Question 8

Triplets

Answer 8

Makes ideas and concepts more catchy and memorable

Question 9

Emotive language and anecdote

Answer 9

Can evoke an emotional response. Can make a text more personal

Question 10

Opinion

Answer 10

Sways the reader towards the writers viewpoint

Question 11

Listing

Answer 11

Highlights key information and draws attention to several items at once.

Question 12

Figurative language and imagery (metaphor, simile, personification)

Answer 12

Makes a text more interesting, vivid and dramatic. Can be used to create mood and emotion.

Question 13

Using comparisons

Answer 13

Highlights key differences of informations in a text

Question 14

Technical or subject specific vocabulary

Answer 14

The reader may be unfamiliar with this language. It can add further authenticity

Question 15

Exaggeration/ hyperbole

Answer 15

Help to emphasise and draw attention to key ideas within a text

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

• figure of speech that puts together opposite elements

- effect of creating an impression, enhancing a concept, and even entertaining the reader.

Question 17

Stichomythia

Answer 17

Dialogue on which two characters speak alternate line of verse

Question 18

Soliloquy

Answer 18

Allows character to express his/her view without anyone to hear and gives the audience an extended look at what the character is feeling/thinking

Question 19

Dramatic monologue

Answer 19

• long speech given by a single character, given to a audience or another character
• reveals the audience and other characters the thoughts and feelings

Question 20

Juxtaposition

Answer 20

• implies a contrast or comparison
• allows the reader to discern how the paired entities are similar or different
• gives a more profound understanding of contrast and creating a sense of fate or inevitability in the comparison

Question 21

Enjambement

Answer 21

Allow lines to move more quickly as they eye hops to the next line to follow thoughts/ meanings of poem

Question 22

Exclamatory sentence

Answer 22

Shows shock or surprise

Question 23

Interrogative

Answer 23

Force the reader to think about the question

Question 24

Alliteration

Answer 24

Adds emphasis to particular parts of a sentence which helps important information to stand out

Question 25

Hypophora

Answer 25

Writers able to offer readers the ‘right answer’ getting them to adopt the same viewpoint

Question 26

Colloquial language (casual informal language)

Answer 26

Creates a relationship between themselves and the audience | More relatable and engages the reader more effectively

Question 27

Jargon (specialist language relating to a particular topic)

Answer 27

Makes it seem as if the writer is an expert on the topic | Makes tue audience trust the writers viewpoints

Question 28

Exaggeration / hyperbole

Answer 28

Helps to emphasise and draw attention to key ideas

Question 29

Oxymoron

Answer 29

Confuse reader / give them a laugh | Encourages the audience to think beyond everyday logic in order to think and understand paradoxes