Language Techniques
This language technique is where you compare two things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
When the speaker directly talks to the audience using the word "you".
What is direct address?
The events in 'Animal Farm' are an allegory for this historical event.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This is the director of the 1996 film, 'Romeo + Juliet', featuring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Who is Baz Luhrmann?
This is the name of the narrative we are looking at in our 'Australian Poetry' unit.
What is 'The Simple Gift'?
What is a metaphor?
This persuasive technique refers to an appeal to the speaker's credibility, status or authority.
What is ethos?
Who is Old Major?
For your 'Romeo and Juliet' assessment, you wrote this type of paragraph in class.
What is a comparative SETEEL paragraph?
This type of narrative is a story told through verse (poetic/musical language), rather than prose (everyday language).
What is a verse narrative?
This language technique is where you give human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This persuasive technique refers to an appeal to the audience's emotions.
What is pathos?
This refers to information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
This refers to the start of a text, before the main story starts.
What is a prologue?
This type of narration is where a story is told from the perspectives of two or more characters.
What are multiple points of view/narration?
This language technique is when weather is used to help build a mood or atmosphere.
What is pathetic fallacy?
This persuasive technique refers to an appeal to the audience's reason and logic.
What is logos?
This political and economic system seeks to create a classless society and is centred around common ownership.
What is communism?
This is when a text is taken and reworked or reimagined in a different form, style or context.
This form of poetry doesn't have a regular meter, rhyme scheme nor formal structure.
What is free verse?
This language technique is where you put two contrasting things placed close together.
What is juxtaposition?
This type of speech is where ideas or issues are explored without a direct intention to persuade the audience to adopt a single viewpoint
What is a discursive speech?
This system of government is where the government has unlimited control and citizens have limited rights.
What is totalitarianism?
This is when a text refers to, borrows from, or reshapes another text.
What is intertextuality?
This refers to an organisational framework for how story events are presented, from beginning to end. The key elements are: Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
What is narrative structure?