Language Devises Flashcards
Pathetic fallacy
When the weather reflects the mood
Personification
When you give something that is non human a human features
Zoomorphism
When you give a human an animals feature
Chremamorphism
When you give a human the feature of a non human (John was blasting around the room like a rocket)
Simile
Comparing two nouns using like or as
Metaphor
Comparing two nouns without like or as
Extended metaphor
When you explain a metaphor
Oxymoron
Two opposite word
Juxtaposition
Two opposing ideas
Semantic field
When words can be linked to one topic
Rhetorical question
When a question is asked in a piece of writing that doesn’t require a answer
Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration
Assonance
Repeat a vowel sound ( I was to cool for school )
Alliteration
Words in a row begin with the same letter
Sibilance
Repeat the s letter of s sound
Emotive language
Writing is specifically trying to invoke a particular emotion ( try to make u angry)
Onomatopoeia
Use sound in writing
Rule of three
When you have three adjectives or three phrases in a to describe one thing
Imagery
Imagery is when the right purposely tries to create a particular image in the writers mind
Repetition
Repeat words or phrases for a particular effect
Nouns
A name of anything
Verbs
A thing or an action
Adjective
Describes a noun
Adverb
describes a verb
Colloquial language
This is when you write the way you speak
Euphuism
A nice way of saying bad stuff
Hypophora
When the character asks a question and then they answer it
Satire
Use humour
Symbolism
Symbolism is when objects or things have a wider meaning
Anecdote
A small personal story
Anaphora
When the writer repeats the same thing at the beginning of a sentence
Epistrophe
When you repeat a word at the end of the sentence
Tmesis
When you insert a word inside of another word
Cliché
Words or phrases that are used quite often 
Paradox
Is when the idea is strange, but when you think about it, it starts to make a little bit of sense
Imperative
A command
Diction
When the writer writes in a specific way to establish a voice
Plosives
Repetition of a P or T sound
Cacophony
Repetition or the use of any other harsh sounds 
Anastrophe
Anastrophe is when the order of words is incorrect
Sensory writing
What you can see or hear in the writing
Aporia
When the speaker expresses doubt in their writing
Hubris
When a character is overly confident
Verbal irony
When the opposite of what the character says ends up happening
Structural irony
When events in the text end up happening go against the character thought would happen
Dramatic irony
When the audience are aware of things that characters on the stage are not aware
Superlative
Express the highest amount
Motif
When the writer keeps on recurring a certain image for a text
