Language technqiues

Question 1

polyptoton

Answer 1

repetition of words derived from the same root

Question 2

chiasmus

Answer 2

word or concepts are repeated in reverse order.

Question 3

tricolon

Answer 3

3 repitions of a word or phrase (popular among latin peots)

Question 4

Emphatic line/ word placement

Answer 4

Placeing key words at the begining or end of the phrase

Question 5

Direct adress

Answer 5

Talking to the reader

Question 6

Pathos

Answer 6

Evoking pity for something or someone

Question 7

Litotes

Answer 7

A double negitve to renforce a postive (not hate)
used in latin but not english

Question 8

ALLITERATION

Answer 8

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected

Question 9

ANAPHORA

Answer 9

The repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses or poetic lines.

Question 10

APOSTROPHE

Answer 10

Breaking out from narration to make a direct address.

Question 11

ASSONANCE

Answer 11

The repetition of vowel sounds

Question 12

ASYNDETON

Answer 12

The omission of connective words such as ‘and’.

Question 13

BATHOS

Answer 13

The effect achieved where a ‘high’ and lofty tone suddenly gives way to brutal and low terms.

Question 14

DIMINUTIVES

Answer 14

Forms of words which suggest a small version of the simple word.

Question 15

ECPHRASIS

Answer 15

A digression which pauses the action of the narrative to describe a scene or a work of art.

Question 16

ENACTMENT

Answer 16

Where the words somehow replicate verbally the scene being described.

Question 17

ENJAMBEMENT

Answer 17

The emphatic leaving of the last word of a phrase/sentence to the start of the following line of verse.

Question 18

HENDIADYS

Answer 18

When a single idea is presented as if it were two separate things.

Question 19

HYPERBATON

Answer 19

The deliberate placing of words outside where they are expected to be.

Question 20

JUXTAPOSITION

Answer 20

The placing of words next to each other for effect.

Question 21

METONYMY

Answer 21

A use of words referring to something with words associated with it.

Question 22

ONOMATOPOEIA

Answer 22

Where the sound of words imitates the thing being described.

Question 23

OXYMORON

Answer 23

Juxtaposition of words with strongly contrasting meaning; literally ‘sharp-dull’ in Greek.

Question 24

PERSONA

Answer 24

The ‘mask’ in the theatre: used of the character which the speaker of satire assumes when in his role as satirist.

Question 26

PLEONASM

Answer 26

Saying more than is needed.

Question 27

POLYSYNDETON

Answer 27

Excessive use of connective words such as ‘and’.

Question 28

RING COMPOSITION/ CYCLICAL STRUCTURE

Answer 28

Denotes the shaping of a text so that the ending recalls the beginning.

Question 29

SIBILANCE

Answer 29

The repetition of the hissing sound created by ‘s’, ‘c’ or ‘sh.’