language techniques for all writing

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

A word which refers to a previously-used word

Question 2

Antithesis

Answer 2

Rhetorical device where contrasting concepts are placed together in a sentence/text,to highlight how opposite they are

Question 3

Auditory imaging

Answer 3

language which appeals to the readers hearing

Question 4

biblical

Answer 4

relating to the bible;religious connotations

Question 5

Catalyst

Answer 5

A dramatic tool which is used to speed up the play

Question 6

Didactic

Answer 6

A moral message,meaning to give instructions

Question 7

Dramatic irony

Answer 7

when the audience knows more than the character

Question 8

Epitome

Answer 8

The perfect embodiment of a particular quality e.g. scrooge and greedy

Question 9

Foreboding

Answer 9

Apprehension that a bad event will occur

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

use of exaggerated statements

Question 11

Interjection

Answer 11

Sudden remark,used often as an interruption e.g. bah humbug

Question 12

juxtaposition

Answer 12

Comparing 2 concepts in close proximity in a passage for the effect of contrast

Question 13

Moral imperative

Answer 13

An instruction on what is right or wrong,the ghosts did this

Question 14

Olfactory imagery

Answer 14

appeals to the readers smell

Question 15

pathetic fallacy

Answer 15

A kind of personification in which human emotions are projected onto nature,especially weather

Question 16

Poetic justice

Answer 16

This is normally accompanied with some sort of irony, or when characters get what they deserve

Question 17

Prolepsis

Answer 17

A flash forward e.g. the scenes the ghost of christmas yet to come shows scrooge

Question 18

Satire

Answer 18

Criticizing people with the use of humour or irony

Question 19

sibilance

Answer 19

repetition of ‘s’ sounds

Question 20

Superlative

Answer 20

An adjective describing the highest degree of what it is

Question 20

Temporal deixis

Answer 20

Language which references time