
I used this for my Year 11 revision session.
Part 1:
Students are asked to define the following terms:
- Symbolism
- Connotation:
- Denotation:
- Colloquial language:
- Exposition:
- Motif:
- Perspective:
- Foreshadowing
- Flashback:
- Cyclical:
Part 2: Students answer the following questions:
11. What is the difference between an imperative and an interrogative?
12. What is the difference between ‘linear’ and ‘non-linear’?
13. What is the difference between a language device and a literary device?
14. Give an example of a literary device.
15. Give examples of theatrical terminology.
16. What is the difference between an oxymoron and juxtaposition?
17. What is a rhetorical question?
18. What is the difference between a metaphor and simile?
19. What is the term used when something is exaggerated or over the top?
20. What is the term used for emotionally charged language designed to affect the readers?
Part 3: Students to colour code which devices are LANGUAGE and which are STRUCTURE.
Answer reveal for Part 3.
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