Language Techniques
This narrative perspective is utilised to convey objectivity and a separation or distance between the reader and the protagonist.
What is 3rd person narrative voice?
Regular written language, with no rhythmic techniques, composed in sentences and paragraphs.
What is prose?
Identify the technique:
"The fire's fingers reached out, devouring the pages..." — Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
What is personification?
a 19th-century movement that aims to represent everyday life, ordinary people, and contemporary society in a straightforward, objective, and accurate manner.
What is Realism?
he only continent with no active volcanoes.
What is Australia?
This tecnique is when natural phenomenon such as the weather are used to mirror or suggest a character's emotional state or mood
What is pathetic fallacy?
Rhythmic and highly structured and figurative language.
What is poetry or verse?
Identify the technique:
"Books are the mirrors of the soul" — Virginia Woolf
What is a metaphor?
a 20th-century avant-garde movement dedicated to expressing the unconscious mind, bridging dream and reality into a "super-reality"
What is Surrealism?
This kid’s lit classic has a chapter called “The Puppies Arrive”.
What is 101 Dalmations?
The repetivie use of a symbol, image phrase or idea.
What is a motif?
NESA defines this form as " hose whose primary focus is to explore an idea or variety of topics. These texts involve the discussion of an idea(s) or opinion(s) without the direct intention of persuading the reader, listener or viewer to adopt any single point of view. "
What is a discursive text?
Identify the technique:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (Charles Dickens)
What is antithesis?
a "rebirth" of European literature following the Middle Ages, heavily influenced by Classical Greek and Roman texts, humanism, and the rise of vernacular languages.
What is the Renaissance?
In 1839 the first of several wars broke out over the trade of an extract from a certain type of plant/flower.
What is the poppy?
Figurative imagery is commonly made up of these 4 techniques
What are Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole?
A form of narrative writing where the story is comprised of a series of letters between characters.
What is epistolary writing/epistles?
Identify the technique:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
What is paradox?
an early 20th-century movement (roughly 1910-1945) characterized by a deliberate, radical break from traditional Victorian-era, realistic forms of writing. It reflects the fragmentation, disillusionment, and intense technological change following World War I, often utilizing experimental techniques like stream of consciousness, non-linear narratives, and multiple perspectives to explore subjective, individual experiences rather than objective reality.
What is modernism?
the only island whose territory makes up parts of 3 different independent nations.
What is Borneo?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, such as 'TheChurch issued a statememnt about...'
What is synecdoche?
The five forms of writing that you may be expected to compose in the HSC exams.
What is analytical (essay), imaginative, discursive, reflective, and persuasive?
Identify the technique:
"...not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy." — Barack Obama
What is triciolon (rule fo threes)?
a literary technique where fiction self-consciously draws attention to its own artificiality, reminding the reader they are engaging with a constructed work rather than reality, often by breaking the 4th wall
What is metafiction?
In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words.
Who is The Terminator?