Grammar/ Punctuation
This punctuation mark is often used to separate independent clauses without using a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This is the term for a contradiction between what is said and what is meant.
What is verbal irony?
This author coined the term “Big Brother” in a dystopian vision of a surveillance state.
Who is George Orwell?
This term describes the dominant idea or underlying message explored throughout a text.
What is a theme?
This term for a long speech by one character comes from Greek drama.
What is 'monologue'?
This is the name for the error when two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
This technique describes when an author drops subtle clues about events that will occur later.
What is foreshadowing?
This is the cultural movement associated with valuing individualism, imagination, and emotion in response to the Enlightenment.
What is romanticism?
This is the term for placing contrasting ideas close together for effect.
What is a juxtaposition?
This word, meaning a lover of words, comes from the Greek logos.
What is a 'logophile'?
This grammatical mood expresses commands or requests.
What is the imperative mood?
This device gives human qualities to abstract concepts, such as “Death is my neighbor.”
What is personification?
This movement in literature, emerging after WWII, often explores absurdity, disillusionment, and existentialism.
What is post-modernism?
This narrative technique immerses the reader directly into a character’s thoughts.
What is a stream of consciousness?
This word, used to describe a sudden insight or revelation, comes from the Greek for "manifestation."
What is an epiphany?
This type of sentence structure includes one independent and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This literary device uses a part to represent the whole, such as “wheels” to mean a car.
What is a synecdoche?
This idea suggests that all texts are connected and influenced by other texts.
What is intertextuality?
In Lord of the Flies, this object symbolises law and order.
What is the conch shell?
This rhetorical device repeats the same word at the beginning of successive clauses.
What is an anaphora?
This is the term for unnecessary repetition in writing, such as “free gift” or “ATM machine.”
What is tautology or redundancy?
This extended metaphor is often allegorical, telling a second level of meaning beneath the surface story.
What is a conceit?
This is the term for the relationship between a composer’s personal experiences and their creative work.
What is an autobiographical influence?
This term describes when a text reflects on its own nature as a text, often breaking the fourth wall or referencing its own construction.
What is metafiction?
This word for a disastrous or tragic event literally means “bad star” in its Latin roots.
What is disaster?