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Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Explain what imagery is and name the five types of imagery.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Imagery is vivid, descriptive or figurative language that appeals to one or more of the five senses. The five types of imagery are auditory imagery, gustatory imagery, kinaesthetic or tactile imagery, olfactory imagary and visual imagery.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What literary device is the expression 'I came, I saw, I tripped over my feet' an example of?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

The expression 'I came, I saw, I tripped over my feet' is an example of anti-climax or bathos.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is the difference between a flat and a round character?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

A flat character is a minor character that plays a supporting role in a story and does not undergo much change. A flat character is usually presented as one-dimensional or a stereotype, e.g. a tough guy. A round character is major or complex character that develops and grows during a story.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is a euphemism?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

A euphemism is an understatement in which a harsh fact is expressed in a gentle way, e.g. 'She passed away.'

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is litotes?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Litotes is a type of understatement in which something positive is expressed by negating it's opposite, e.g. 'not bad' means 'quite good' and 'not uncommon' means 'fairly common'.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is the difference between a Petrarchan sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

A Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave and a sestet. The rhyme scheme is usually abbaabba cdcdcd. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. The rhyme scheme is usually abab cdcd efef gg.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is synecdoche?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Synechdoche is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or alternatively, in which the whole signifies a part. E.g. in the expression, 'Give me a hand', only the hand is referred to, although the help of the whole person is needed.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is a soliquay?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

A soliliquay is a dramatic monologue in which a character speaks to him- or herself, thereby conveying thoughts or feelings to the audience.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is metonymy?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which the term for one thing is applied to another associated with it, e.g. we say 'The White House' when we mean 'the American president', or we say that someone has 'seized the throne' when we mean that he has 'seized power'.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Explain what is meant by irony.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Irony is figure of speech in which one thing is said and another is to be understood or in which one thing is said, but circumstances show that the opposite is the case, e.g. saying 'It is a good thing we came early' when the cinema is almost empty.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What does the term 'foot' in poetry refer to?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

A foot in poetry is a unit of meter or rhythimic unit. Each foot consists of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is kinaesthetic imagery?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Kinaesthetic imagery is imagery that appeals to our sense of touch, temperature, movement or feeling.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What sound device is the term 'squelch' an example of?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

The word 'squelch' is an example of onomatopoeia.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is the difference between an allusion and a parody?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

An allusion is a reference to a person or text that the writer assumes the reader knows about. A parody is a humorous imitation of another text for the purpose of humour or mockery.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

State whether the following is an example of paradox, oxymoron or antithesis: 'It is an open secret that she likes him.'

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

'Open secret' is an example of an oxymoron.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is an enjambment?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

Enjambment, also called a run-on line, is a line of poetry that does not pause at the end, but runs into the next line.

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

What is an antithesis?

Grade 12 English Home Language, Literature and literary devices

An antithesis is an apparent contradiction in which the contrasting ideas are represented in two opposing halves of a sentence, e.g. 'Speech is silver; silence is gold.'

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