Language devices

Question 1

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 1

When the weather reflects the mood.

Question 2

personification

Answer 2

Giving something not human a human feature.

Question 3

Zoomorphism

Answer 3

Giving a human an animal feature.

Question 4

Chremamorphism

Answer 4

Giving a human or animala feature of an inanimate object.

Question 5

Extended metaphor

Answer 5

Explaining the metaphor

Question 6

Oxymoron

Answer 6

two opposite words put together. e.g. bitter sweet.

Question 7

Juxtaposition

Answer 7

two opposing ideas.

Question 8

Semantic field

Answer 8

A group of words that link to the same topic

Question 9

Rhetorical question

Answer 9

question that doesnt need an asnwer

Question 10

hyperbole

Answer 10

exaggerated statements

Question 11

assonance

Answer 11

when you repeat the vowl sound

Question 12

Sibilance

Answer 12

Repeating the s sound

Question 13

emotive language

Answer 13

language that aims to envoke a specific emotion

Question 14

onomatapia

Answer 14

sounds like bang boom zoom

Question 15

colloquial language

Answer 15

When you write the way you speek

Question 16

euphemism

Answer 16

phrases used to sugar coat negative things

Question 17

hypophora

Answer 17

when someone asks and answers their own question

Question 18

Anecdote

Answer 18

small personal story

Question 19

anaphora

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Epistrophe

Answer 20

reapeat the word at the end of the sentence

Question 21

imperative

Answer 21

command words

Question 22

diction

Answer 22

when the writer writes in a specifc way to establish a voice.

Question 23

plosive