Text Type - Literary
Q: This literary text-type takes the form of a novel, but is written with a comic strip format.
What is a graphic novel?
A formal address or discourse delivered to an audience.
What is a speech?
"Julian had the personality of a bathmat."
What is an example of a metaphor?
Silent and deadly as a noxious fart, the thief crept through the house.
What is an example of a simile?
Simile
What is the device used to compare two things using 'like' or 'as'?
The formal name given to works intended to be performed for theatre, radio or television.
What is drama?
A periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership.
What is a magazine?
“Together, we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And, yes, together, we will make America great again.”
What is an example of collective pronouns / high modality / anaphora / repetition?
"How dare you?"
What is an example of rhetorical question?
Hyperbole
What is the device for deliberate exaggeration?
A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction, rhythm and imagery.
A published piece in a newspaper, reflecting the official opinion of that publication on a given topic.
What is an editorial?
Q: "Schools and schoolchildren ditch languages like there's no tomorrow. Spelling? Grammar? Syntax? Don't fancy that."
What is an example of colloquial speech / slang / informal diction?
Round the ragged rocks, the rascally rabbit ran!
What is an example of alliteration?
Olfactory imagery
What is the form of imagery that refers to the sense of smell?
A narrative written without metrical pattern that tells an imaginary or invented story.
What is prose fiction?
A multimodal text that utilizes image, text and sound to communicate meaning.
What is a film?
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers."
What is an example of polysyndeton?
"Do you care? No, you don't!"
What is an example of hypophora?
Sibilance
What is the device that describes the repetition of the 's' sound?
A work comprising paragraphs and sentences, with no rhythm, meter or rhyme. The work is based mainly on fact, even if it contains literary elements.
What is prose non-fiction?
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is a parody?
"When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not."
What is an example of anastrophe?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair."
What is an example of chiasmus?
Asyndeton
What is the device that describes listing without conjunctions?