Yearly Yr 8

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repeating the first letter of each word

Question 2

Example of alliteration

Answer 2

slimy, slithering snakes.

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

repeating the same sound at any place of the word

Question 4

Example of assonance

Answer 4

The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains

Question 5

Blank verse

Answer 5

no rhyming but rythm

Question 6

Example of blank verse

Answer 6

“It is not nor it cannot come to good,

Question 7

enjambment

Answer 7

incomplete syntax at the end of a line

Question 8

example of enjambment

Answer 8

I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o’er vales and hills

Question 9

Free verse

Answer 9

Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech.

Question 10

Example of free verse

Answer 10

“so much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens.”

Question 11

Iambic pantameter

Answer 11

iambic pentameter, in poetry, a line of verse composed of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. singsogny like

Question 12

example of iambic pantameter

Answer 12

shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Question 13

Imagery

Answer 13

using words to describe a scene and make an image in the readers mind

Question 14

example of imagery

Answer 14

“The sky was as blue as the ocean and the clouds sailed across it like white boats.

Question 15

Irony

Answer 15

the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Question 16

Example of irony

Answer 16

dr strangelove acting in a way that is caring in regards for safety even though he used to manufacture bombs

Question 17

Objectification

Answer 17

treating a person as a commodity or an object, without regard to their personality or dignity

Question 18

Example of objectification

Answer 18

this is symbolised in a clockwork orange when the tables in the korova milkbar are women

Question 19

Oxymoron

Answer 19

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

Question 20

example of oxymoron

Answer 20

deafening silence

Question 21

personification

Answer 21

giving human qualities to non-living things

Question 22

example of personification

Answer 22

the moon smiled down

Question 23

rythm

Answer 23

The definition of rhythm in poetry is the recurrence of specific sounds based on long and short patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 24

example of rhythm

Answer 24

“Westward toward the neighboring forest. Burning, singing in the sunshine.”

Question 25

Sibilance

Answer 25

the repetition of “s” sounds in a series of neighboring words,

Question 26

example of sibilance

Answer 26

“Sarah's silly sister swallowed her sweet.”

Question 27

stanza

Answer 27

a paragraph in poetry

Question 28

Symbolism

Answer 28

when an object or a symbol is put for an additional meaning

Question 29

Example of symbolism

Answer 29

a dove can symbolise death

Question 30

Synechdoche

Answer 30

where part is made to represent a whole or vice versa

Question 31

Example of Synechdoche

Answer 31

Do a headcount and see who's missing.

Question 32

Tempo

Answer 32

he rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions