Language devices Flashcards
Pathetic fallacy
When the weather reflects the mood.
personification
Giving something not human a human feature.
Zoomorphism
Giving a human an animal feature.
Chremamorphism
Giving a human or animala feature of an inanimate object.
Extended metaphor
Explaining the metaphor
Oxymoron
two opposite words put together. e.g. bitter sweet.
Juxtaposition
two opposing ideas.
Semantic field
A group of words that link to the same topic
Rhetorical question
question that doesnt need an asnwer
hyperbole
exaggerated statements
assonance
when you repeat the vowl sound
Sibilance
Repeating the s sound
emotive language
language that aims to envoke a specific emotion
onomatapia
sounds like bang boom zoom
colloquial language
When you write the way you speek
euphemism
phrases used to sugar coat negative things
hypophora
when someone asks and answers their own question
Anecdote
small personal story
anaphora
when the writer repeats the same word or words at the start of the sentence e.g. go big or go home, open heart, open mind, martin luther king jr i have a dream speech he starts a lot of his sentences with i have a dream.
Epistrophe
reapeat the word at the end of the sentence
imperative
command words
diction
when the writer writes in a specifc way to establish a voice.
plosive
