Short Answers Techniques

• Short Stories/Novel Excerpts

  • Imagery - sensory (five kinds (visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory, gustatory)), emotive, powerful, etc
• Short Stories/Novel Excerpts - Figurative devices

  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • Symbols
  • Motif
• Short Stories/Novel Excerpts

  Setting - When, where, who, how, context
• Short Stories/Novel Excerpts - Chronology

  • Linear story
  • Fragmentation/vignettes
  • Flashback/analepsis
• Poetry - Figurative devices

  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • Symbols
  • Synecdoche - A part represents the whole
• Poetry - Sound Devices

  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
  • Sibilance
  • Repetition (asyndeton, polysyndeton, anaphora, epistrophe, anadiplosis, etc)
  • Rhyme and internal rhyme
  • Punctuation (e.g. Caesura)
• Poetry - Form and Meter

  • Stanza length and their consistency
  • Line length
  • Enjambment
  • Perspective
• Images

  • Colour
  • Positioning (salience)
  • Contrast
  • Symbol
  • Vectors and rule of thirds
  • Paratext
• More/General

  • Rhetorical
  • Modality
  • Anecdotes
  • x Tone
  • x dialogue
• Feature articles

  • Statistics (ethos or logos)
  • Analogy
  • Paratext
  • Appealing to pathos