Language Features Flashcards
Hyperbole
Obvious Exaggeration
I could eat a horse
Rhyme
Same sounds between words or at the end of words. Mostly used in poetry.
Cool – School – Rule – Tool – Pool – Fool.
Rhetorical Question
Question that doesn’t need an answer
Who wouldn’t want to be a millionaire?
Personification
Objects giving human traits
The table leaned over tiredly
Emotive Language
Words chosen to cause an emotional response
Heavenly, Terrifying, Betrayed
Imperative
Words used to create commands
Turn left, Clean your room
Pun
Humour
Never trust an atom they make up everything
Assonance
Same/similar vowel sound
His tender heir might bear his memory
Consonance
Repeating consonant sounds
pitter patter, drip drop
Colloquial Language
Casual Words
Y’all, gonna, wanna
Slang
More casual than colloquial
Groovy, Far Out
Repetition
A word or phrase is repeated
Onomatopoeia
The sound something makes
Boom
Alliteration
Words starting with same letter
Wild wet wacky Wednesday
Metaphor
Comparison without using like or as
He cried a river