Best analysis? "We plunge into the dark world of terrorism"

Mimetic verb implies excitement and immersion

Best analysis? "The ceremonies mark a milestone in the bumpy march towards tolerance and equality."

Extended metaphor with alliteration indicating contextual societal progress

Best analysis? "How could houses so old look so awful?"

RQ expresses disillusion of Americans at Paris suburbia

Best analysis? "Reader comments form part of the overall wordstorm described above, and it's true I'm not a huge fan"

Compound neologism's morphological juxtaposition develops critique of talk, Litotes used to temper tone of his criticism

Relevant context? "Saturday is complete again: Scandinavian noir is back"

2000s TV audiences' growing consumer choices

Best analysis? "Not to be clogged to the land any more. Not to be any more like a donkey with a log on its leg"

Anaphora and assonance/ consonance suggest a need to be free of burdens

Best analysis? "Each grain of red rice is emblazoned on the surface of my tongue forever"

Hyperbolic verb and adverbials emphasise how memorable the taste was

Best analysis? "they live with the mark of Cain upon them"

Biblical allusion suggests the lasting guilt and shame of war crimes

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April 2025 L-L Anthology quiz

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1
Name the technique: "How good is that?"
Unco-operative overlap
Time adverbial
Expressive tag question
Exclamative
2
Relevant context? "To those people in the huts and villages... we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves"
1930s threat from fascism
2000s TV audiences' growing consumer choices
Early 1960s American idealism
1990s Royal family turmoil
3
Name the technique: "I crossed to France early in 1917"
Post-modifying time adverbial
Juxtaposition
Premodifying adjectival phrase
Fronted prepositional phrase
4
Best analysis? "We plunge into the dark world of terrorism"
Mimetic verb implies excitement and immersion
Third person perspective gives a sense of persona's vulnerability
Mimetic verb suggests a dull journey
Second person perspective allows readers to experience it vicariously
5
Best analysis? "The ceremonies mark a milestone in the bumpy march towards tolerance and equality."
Discourse markers to signal a shift in argument
Rhetorical syntactically parallel phrasing to suggest disdain at progress
Extended metaphor with alliteration indicating contextual societal progress
Elliptical expression indicates his casual attitude towards the idea
6
Name the technique: "I've got to ask you about this. Everyone is concerned about these embassy closings."
Idiom
Anaphoric reference
Cataphoric reference
Time adverbial
7
Best analysis? "How could houses so old look so awful?"
Setting description used to show approval of Beckett's former dwelling
RQ expresses disillusion of Americans at Paris suburbia
Declarative asks readers to reflect on American architecture
Writer expresses disdain for Parisian people
8
Name the technique: "Know any jokes?"
Adjacency pair
Deictic reference
Extended metaphor
Elliptical interrogative
9
Best analysis? "Reader comments form part of the overall wordstorm described above, and it's true I'm not a huge fan"
Compound neologism's morphological juxtaposition develops critique of talk
Repetition of online insults used to shock readers into empathy
Litotes used to temper tone of his criticism
Metaphorical phrasing suggest approval of reader attitudes
10
Relevant context? "Saturday is complete again: Scandinavian noir is back"
Early 1960s American idealism
1990s Royal family turmoil
1930s threat from fascism
2000s TV audiences' growing consumer choices
11
Relevant context? "like a lot of companies, to cut costs we're outsourcing our IT department overseas"
1960s second-wave feminism
2000s business practices
1950s American McCarthyism
1990s Royal family turmoil
12
Relevant context? "Sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you."/ "My physicians say it relaxes the throat."
1930s medical A+V
Early 1960s American idealism
2000s TV audiences' growing consumer choices
1990s Royal family turmoil
13
Name the technique: "They don't care. Poeple don't care anymore."
Declarative + reframing
Metaphor
Adjacency pair
Filler
14
Best analysis? "Not to be clogged to the land any more. Not to be any more like a donkey with a log on its leg"
Anaphora and assonance/ consonance suggest a need to be free of burdens
Series of exclamatives to suggest invigoration by natural scenery
Metaphorical noun phrase implies idea of freedom
Idiomatic expression alludes to biblical stories to suggest piety
15
Best analysis? "Each grain of red rice is emblazoned on the surface of my tongue forever"
Personification accentuates her love for her mother
Metaphor suggests she didn't like the meal
Simile implies her indifference to the food
Hyperbolic verb and adverbials emphasise how memorable the taste was
16
Best analysis? "they live with the mark of Cain upon them"
Values of religion suggested in metaphor
Biblical allusion suggests the lasting guilt and shame of war crimes
Idiom implies an understanding of those who fight
SPP accentuates the ongoing onslaught of war

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