Structural Techniques

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

When one subject is used and it is constantly repeated and reffered back to within the text

Question 2

Listing - asyndetic and syndetic

Answer 2

• Asyndetic - listing connected with a comma instead of a conjunction / connective = A man with no hat, with broken shoes, with an old rag tied round his head.

• Syndetic = listing connected with a conjunction/connective–A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.

Question 3

Rhetorical question

Answer 3

A question that is not meant to be answered

Question 4

Hypophora

Answer 4

When a rhetorical question is asked and is immediately answered

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously.

Question 5

Declarative sentence

Answer 5

A sentence that states a fact , feeling or mood

Question 6

Circular strucutre

Answer 6

When the extract starts and ends in a similar way

Question 7

Minor sentence

Answer 7

One word sentence - creates a shock factor

Question 8

Ellipisis

Answer 8

3 dots (…) - represents a pause or that something has been intentionally left out

Question 9

Cataphoric referance

Answer 9

means that a word in a text refers to another later in the text and you need to look forward to understand