Rhetorical devices
This is a rhetorical device used in the text (Identify at least one).
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Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease
What is personification, alliteration, The White Man's Burden, Rudyard Kipling
He wrote a speech about Chicken Tikka Masala
Who is Robin Cook?
This is a word that describes a proces, whereby one nation overtakes the country of another nation, often by force, and
What is colonialism?
This is a word used to describe a certain way of speaking English in certain geographical areas in the UK
What is dialect?
This is the typical name for the proces, whereby the UK has left the EU.
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What is Brexit?
This is a rhetorical device used in the text (Identify at least one - and bonus points for naming the text and/or author, from which the quote is from)
'The British Empire is long dead; only flotsam and jetsam now remain.'
What is personification and metaphor? (Empire: Britain Made the Modern world, Niall Ferguson)
He wrote about his experiences with Empire in Burma
Who is George Orwell?
This country has been called 'The Crown Jewel' of the Empire'
What is India?
This is a word used to describe a certain way of speaking English using a specific intonation and certain sounds from another language.
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What is accent?
These are the two official languages spoken in Wales
What are English and Welsh?
This is a rhetorical device used in the text (Identify at least one)
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'The thick blood welled out of him like red velvet, but still he did not die.'
What is simile, Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell
He wrote a famous speech with an image of a 'River of Blood'
Who is Enoch Powell?
This is the year where the British Empire is said to have been at its height of power (app. year +/-5 years)
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What is 1918?
This is the newest and trendiest dialect in London
What is MLE - Multicultural London English?
These are the countries included in Great Britain
What are England, Scotland and Wales?
This is a rhetorical device used in the speech (Identify at least one)
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'like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood".'
What is allusion, metaphor/imagery, Rivers of Blood speech, Enoch Powell
He wrote about the 'Desi Rudeboys' in Paki
Who is Gautam Malkani?
This is the most famous description of the old British Empire to illustrate how far-reaching the empire was
What is 'The Empire on which the sun never sets'?
this is what Jas does in Paki when goes from speaking one sociolect (desi rudeboy) to another (fancy, intellectual)
What is 'code switching'?
These are the countries included in the UK
What are England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
This is a rhetorical device used in the title of the article Ethnic diversity makes Britain’s culture great. It would be a disaster if we lost it
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What is exaggeration?
Akram Khan
He wrote the poem 'White Man's Burden'
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
These three C's were closely associated with British colonialism
What are Civilization, Christianity and Commerce?
This is how this sentence is pronounced without and with a glottal stop?
Could I please have a bottle of water?
What is
Could I please have a [botl of water]?
Could I please have a [bo'l of wa'er]?
This is the full name of the UK
What is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'?