Lanuage Devices

Question 1

Oxymoron

Answer 1

Two words not typically associated with one another are used together

Question 2

Imagery

Answer 2

A way of using language to paint a picture for the reader

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

Over exaggerated statement to add effect or emphasise a point

Question 4

Symbolism

Answer 4

When you use certain words or objects as a symbol for different ideas

Question 5

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 5

When human emotions are given to the weather, setting or object

Question 6

Rule of 3

Answer 6

Anything in a group of 3

Question 7

Cliche

Answer 7

Type of expression or phrase that is extremely popular and overused

Question 8

Enjambment
(Poems)

Answer 8

When a sentence carrys on after the end of the line

Question 9

Repetition (structure)

Answer 9

Something repeated throughout the text

Question 10

Chronology

Answer 10

The plot moves in an order that would have logically take place in real life

Question 11

Foreshadowing

Answer 11

Author gives hints about what will happen later

Question 12

Pacing

Answer 12

How fast the pacing of the story is

Question 13

Sentence structure

Answer 13

Simple compound complex

Question 14

Alliteration

Answer 14

Repetition of the beginning sound of 2 or more words placed near each other

Question 15

Rhyme

Answer 15

Creates rhythm in poem and can make poem flow or feel disorderly

Question 16

Assonance

Answer 16

Half rhyme where you change the vowel sound in a word or the consonants

Question 17

Metre

Answer 17

Rhythm of beats in a poem

Question 18

Sonnet

Answer 18

14 line with fixed rhyme sceme

Question 19

Quatrain

Answer 19

Four line verse/ stanza