miscellaneous
"Romeo and Juliet" is a representative of this type of play. What's so funny about this, haha?
What is a tragedy?
This stylistic device can be found in “The wind whispered through the trees.”
What is a personification?
What is an alliteration?
This type of narrator presents events in a clear and believable way.
What is a reliable narrator?
This geometrical form lists "sender/writer/speaker", "receiver/reader/audience", "language", "circumstances", "topic" and has got "intention" in the centre.
What is the rhetorical pentagram?
This is the part of speech (Wortart) that "of" belongs to in the sentence: "This is the part of speech that "of" belongs to in the sentence.""
What is a preposition?
This should be the first sentence in an analytical essay.
What is a hook?
This stylistic device is found in “I have told you a million times.”
What is a hyperbole?
This narrative device shows a scene that happened earlier in time than the main story
what is a "flashback"?
This mode of appeal aims to build the reader's/audience's trust
What is ethos?
This part of speech can be found three times in this sentence: "Brace yourselves: the essay doesn't write itself but the students need to put in the effort themselves."
What is a "reflexive pronoun" / Reflexivpronomen / tilbagevisende stedord?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Just like that: this common word in the English language changes a metaphor into a simile. As if!?
What is "like" or "as"?
symbols, metaphors and similes are examples for this
What is imagery?
Examples of this are: to inform, to persuade, to provoke, to entertain, to raise awareness, or influence decisions
What is the intention?
This is the German term for the fact that in the English language both the subject and the verb need to align.
Compare: She speaks and they listen.
"Er redet und wir hören zu."
roughly 8 minutes! (*oral exam*)
Pardon my French, this stylistic
device runs from one line
to the other in
a poem.
What is an enjambment?
Love, identity, morality, freedom, power, ... are common examples for this.
What is the "main theme?
A speaker or writer uses this to make the listener share personal experiences or have a glimpse at the private life of the speaker/writer, esp. when it's a public figure?
What is a personal narrative?
This relative pronoun (Relativpronomen / henførend stedord) is the possessive one.
What is "whose"?
Before you go home, you need to listen to Denmarks entry to this years Eurovision that takes place this Saturday.
What is "Før vi går hjem?"
Pardon my French, this stylistic
device runs from one line
to the other in
a poem.
What is an enjambment?
It's not only about place and time. It can also be geographical ..., social ..., cultural ...
What is "setting"?
An author shows this when we can identify a strong feeling in favour of or against something, often not based on fair judgement
What is bias?
Never have I ever used "I have never ever used..." when I played "Never have I ever..." with friends. Now I know that what happens on a sentence structure level.
What is "inversion"?