English Techniques
"The wind whispered through the dark trees" is an example of this technique.
What is personification?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What is an echo?
Mary’s father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono, and...
Who is Mary?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an egg?
I am the part of the image that your eyes are drawn to first. What am I?
What is salience?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" heavily uses this sound technique.
What is alliteration?
The more of this there is, the less you see.
What is darkness?
A rooster lays an egg on the peak of a slanted roof. Which way does the egg roll?
What is nowhere? (Roosters don't lay eggs).
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even.
What is Seven? (Take away the 'S').
I am an invisible line that guides your eyes across the page. What am I?
What is vector?
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
I have keys but no doors, space but no room. You can enter but you can’t go inside.
What is a keyboard?
You see a boat filled with people. It hasn't sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
What is "They were all married"?
What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
What is the word "incorrectly"?
The physical pose of a character, the way they hold their arms or stand, which reveals their emotion without words. What is this?
What is body language?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences (e.g., "I came, I saw, I conquered").
What is anaphora?
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
What is silence?
A man looking at a photo says, "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son." Who is in the photo?
Who is his son?
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not.
What is the word "ton" (not)?
A character in a black-and-white room is wearing a bright red coat to show they are in danger. What technique is this?
What is colour symbolism?
The literary technique where the audience knows something significant that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me.
What is fire?
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left?
What is nine?
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
What is the letter "M"?
The camera is looking up at a character from the ground, making them look giant and powerful. What is this called?
What is low angle?