English - Language techniques :D Flashcards
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What is alliteration?
Alliteration is the repetition of the first letter or sounds in two or more words that are close together. E.g. The bees were busily buzzing, and Hounds howling.
What is emotive language?
Language that appeals to emotions, and is designed to make an audience respond emotionally.
What is hyperbole?
Huge or extreme exaggeration. Exaggeration in everyday speech. E.g. I’ve seen that movie a thousand times, The fever made her forehead burning hot.
What is imagery?
Pictures or images evoked in the mind through the use of words. Metaphors, similes, personification and symbolism can create imagery.
What is irony?
Saying one thing but actually meaning the exact opposite. E.g. “That was clever” when someone does something silly.
What is juxtaposition?
Placing things close together or side by side so they will be compared.
What is metaphor?
A metaphor states that one thing IS or WAS something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as. E.g. The road was a ribbon of
moonlight, The wind is the howling of a dying wolf
What is onomatopoeia?
Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like the action they represent. E.g. Over the cobbles clattered and clashed.
What is an oxymoron?
Combing two words or phrases that are opposite or contradictory, e.g. A hateful love.
What is personification?
Personification is to give an inanimate (non-human) object human qualities. E.g. The stars watched over the earth, and The dam wall, tired of holding back the water, crumpled.
What is repetition?
Repetition is the use of words or sounds more than once for effect. E.g. Of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells…
What is a rhetorical question?
A rhetorical question is one asked by the person who created the text but without expectation of an answer. E.g. Who do you think you are?
What is a simile?
A simile is used to show the similarity between two things and always uses the words “like” or “as”. E.g. Sadness falls inside me like cold rain; I wandered lonely as a cloud”
What is tone?
The writer’s attitude to their subject matter or audience. Words that describe tone can include; formal,
aggressive, hopeful, anxious, mysterious.
