Karteikarten
English Exam Revision
Karten in diesem Stapel (17)
- 1What is an Allusionexpression designed to call something into mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
e.g. Quote - 2What is a Personal PronounContrasts to a person, gender, number or case (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them)
- 3What is an appeal to emotionSomething that plays on your feelings when spoken or in text
- 4What is an Rhetorical QuestionQuestions within text or speech that don't necessarily need an answer
- 5What is AlliterationWords that start with the same letters
- 6What is repetitionA word that repeats itself in text or in speech
- 7What is MeiosisUnderstate response to something
- 8What is a LitoteA statement which creates negative to creative emphases, similar to meiosis
- 9What is HyperboleWhen a speaker purposely exaggerates their description
- 10What is a biblical Allusionreferences and elements of the bible
- 11What is imagerymetaphors, similes, personification and hyperbole that draws a picture in your head
- 12What is AnaphoraUse of a word referring back to a word used earlier in a text or conversation
- 13What is OnomatopoeiaThe formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
e.g. Bang, Crash, Splat, Splash etc - 14What is AssonanceResemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled).
- 15What is a ParadoxA seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be true.
- 16What is a PronounA word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you )
- 17A Handy Guide to English Techniques
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