Language Feateres Flashcards
1
Q
Specific choice of words used to provoke a certain reaction
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Diction
2
Q
Giving a hint as to what is to come later in the story
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Foreshadowing
3
Q
Giving human attributes to non-human things
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Personification
4
Q
Giving animal characteristics to something that isn’t an animal
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Zoomorphism
5
Q
Saying something is like or as something else
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Simile
6
Q
Saying something is something else when it’s not
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Metaphor
7
Q
The repetition of sounds at the start of words (e.g. big bouncing balloons)
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Alliteration
8
Q
Repeating words or phrases for effect
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Repetition
9
Q
Deliberate over-exageration
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Hyperbole
10
Q
Something which is
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Irony
