Features Of Style/writing Flashcards
Alliteration
Words beginning with the same letter.creates musical harmony
Analogy
An illustration that uses a comparison with something similar
Analytical style
Analyses an argument/theory/thesis/opinion
Anecdotal style/anecdotes
Anecdotes are stories from personal experience
Antithesis
Contrast/difference
Argumentative style
Writer presents an argument
Assonance
Use of long and slow vowel sounds
Autobiographical style
Writing about one’s own life
Bombastic style
Excessive or exaggerated
Colloquial style/colloquialism
Informal language appropriate to conversation
Descriptive style
This is an emphasis on description with the use of images and adjectives
Direct style
The writer is assertive and presents a strong and definite opinion.It gives authority to what is written and is usually convincing
Didactic style
The writer seeks to educate and instruct the reader.contains a moral or message
Euphemistic style
A sentence that softens or tones down a direct/blunt statement
Fable
A story containing a message conveyed through animal characters
Factual style
Uses many details/dates/statistics
Figurated
(Metaphors,similes,personification):this creates a vivid impact
Forceful verbs:
Action words containing power,energy,violence.it creates a tension-filled tone
Humour
The writer is funny.it adds entertainment to a piece of writing and the audience can relate to it
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Image
Any description that appeals to the other senses.visual/tactile/gustatory/aural
Interrogative style
A passage/text that asks/poses many questions and usually answers them in the same piece
Irony
The opposite of what is expected; the difference between apparently and reality
Listing
Elaborates on the point and reinforces it in an effective and persuasive manner
Metaphor
A comparison that does not use ‘like’ or ‘as’.this is called metaphorical language/style
Nostalgic style
A piece where a writer looks back fondly upon the past
Allegory
Symbols/symbolic figures that represent a deeper truth
Onomatopoeia
Where the sound is similar to the meaning
Oxmoron
Two words together one contradicting
Personal style
Writing about ones own experience
Pun
A play on words
Quixotic style
An excellent enteric/esoteric approach to a subject
Rhetorical style/questions
Questions that directly address the reader and increase reader involvement with the text. The text does not look for an answer
Reference to other authors
This lens authority to an argument it in no longer a subjective opinion or statement
Reverence
Emphasises the point of being made.word/Sentences/phrases repeated
Simile
A comparison between two things using the words like or as
Short emphatic Sentences
Sentences that to tension or create a sense of urgency at a particular moment
Sibilants
Use of s sound in a sentence
Superlatives
Adjectives that are exaggerated to emphasise that the person/thing being described has quality to be degree greater than anything or anyone comparable . It means superior to others., found in excessive or exaggerated language with many adjectives
