Language techniques
This technique compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
Technically, these yellow fruits are berries, while strawberries technically aren't.
What are bananas?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
The are the two degrees your teacher studied at uni
What is Education and English?
This was your Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences text
What is Billy Elliot?
This is the deeper idea or concept explored throughout a text, rather than simply what happens in the plot.
What is theme?
This university was founded centuries before the Aztec Empire.
What is Oxford University?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
When a student gives an answer that is technically correct but painfully vague, this is the question your teacher is most likely to ask.
What is 'but WHY?'
This is the object that mysteriously disappears from every classroom despite there being approximately 700 of them.
What is a pen?
This occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
This is the collective noun for a group of flamingos.
What is a flamboyance?
This country has the most time zones when its overseas territories are included.
What is France?
What was your teacher's first ever job?
What is a barista?
This is the website that suddenly becomes extremely interesting whenever an assessment is due.
What is literally anything except the assessment?
This narrative perspective gives the reader access to the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is limited third person?
In Switzerland, this animal cannot legally be kept alone because it is considered a social species.
What is a guinea pig?
This blood type is known as the universal donor for red blood cells.
What is O negative?
My teacher is how old?
What is 25?
This is the amount of work a student claims they can complete "tonight."
What is the entire HSC course?
This is what is missing when a student writes "The author uses a metaphor to make the reader think" and then stops.
What is analysis?
This object was reportedly buried with its inventor after he died.
What is a Pringles can?
This is the name given to the supercontinent that existed around 300 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
What is your teachers favourite book?
What is tommorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow?
The greatest lie ever told in an English classroom
What is "I promise I'll do it at home"