Devices 1
What device is created by the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses?
What is anaphora?
What is the term for the omission of conjunctions in a list to accelerate pace and intensity?
What is an asyndetic list?
"I am sad." is what kind of sentence?
What is a simple declarative sentence?
What phrase recurs after every death in the novel?
What is “So it goes”?
Which poem contains the phrase “mind-forg’d manacles”, and what abstract force do they most specifically symbolise?
What is London, and they symbolise the internalised psychological imprisonment created by oppressive ideological systems?
Identify the device in Blake’s repeated opening structure: “In every” across successive lines in London.
What is syntactic parallelism combined with anaphora?
What is the poetic device in which a word is repeated successively, multiple times?
What is epizeuxis?
What do we call a metaphor sustained and repeated throughout a text?
What is an extended metaphor (conceit)?
What narrative technique most defines the novel’s treatment of time?
What is non-linear chronology / temporal fragmentation?
Provide one quotation we should all revise from 'Holy Thursday'
What is the term for a sequence of short, unconnected clauses placed side by side without subordinating conjunctions, often creating abruptness or fragmentation?
What is parataxis?
What is the name of the term which describes the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences, often used in rhetorical contexts.
What is epistophe?
'He snarled' is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is zoomorphism?
What is the critical significance of the Tralfamadorian perception of time?
What is fatalistic simultaneity, where all moments coexist and free will is destabilised?
In The Garden of Love, what does the transformation of the green space into a chapel and graveyard specifically critique?
What is the corruption of natural innocence and desire by institutional religion and moral repression?
In highly technical stylistics, what is the precise term for the accumulation of semantically linked vocabulary items that construct a conceptual atmosphere, such as disease, confinement, or corruption?
What is a lexical field (or semantic field)?
This device described a seemingly contradictory statement
What is a paradox?
This is the name for repetition within successive clauses: 'in the summer I eat strawberries, in the winter I eat pie, in the autumn I eat cheese...'
What is mesodiplosis?
What postmodern technique is evident when Vonnegut inserts himself into the narrative voice and foregrounds the process of writing?
What is metafiction / authorial self-reflexivity?
Which poem most directly explores the ideological hypocrisy of Christian consolation as a tool of class control?
What is The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience?
Name the device in which each successive phrase repeats the previous ending word or idea, creating a climactic chain.
What is gradatio (also called climax / anadiplotic progression)?
Name a literary device where a part of something is used to represent the whole, or the whole is used to represent a part.
What is a synecdoche
This device occurs when a writer substitutes a concept, institution, or person with a closely associated symbol or object, such as using “the crown” to represent monarchy.
What is metonymy?
Which allusory figure does the narrator frequently parallel Billy with and why?
What is that Billy is aligned with Jesus Christ as an innocent martyr and witness to suffering, yet the comparison is deeply ironic because he possesses no redemptive power or heroic agency? This subverts the traditional Christian promise of meaningful sacrifice, exposing war as a force that manufactures suffering without purpose, salvation, or moral resolution, thereby intensifying Vonnegut’s anti-war critique.
How does Blake’s lyric form itself become ideological critique across the Songs?
What is that the deceptively simple song-like lyric structure masks profound philosophical and political critique, using formal simplicity to expose the constructed nature of innocence, oppression, and moral authority?