Language Features Flashcards

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Hyperbole

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Obvious Exaggeration
I could eat a horse

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2
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Rhyme

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Same sounds between words or at the end of words. Mostly used in poetry.
Cool – School – Rule – Tool – Pool – Fool.

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Rhetorical Question

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Question that doesn’t need an answer
Who wouldn’t want to be a millionaire?

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4
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Personification

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Objects giving human traits
The table leaned over tiredly

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5
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Emotive Language

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Words chosen to cause an emotional response
Heavenly, Terrifying, Betrayed

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6
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Imperative

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Words used to create commands
Turn left, Clean your room

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7
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Pun

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Humour
Never trust an atom they make up everything

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8
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Assonance

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Same/similar vowel sound
His tender heir might bear his memory

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9
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Consonance

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Repeating consonant sounds
pitter patter, drip drop

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10
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Colloquial Language

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Casual Words
Y’all, gonna, wanna

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11
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Slang

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More casual than colloquial
Groovy, Far Out

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12
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Repetition

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A word or phrase is repeated

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13
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Onomatopoeia

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The sound something makes
Boom

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14
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Alliteration

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Words starting with same letter
Wild wet wacky Wednesday

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15
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Metaphor

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Comparison without using like or as
He cried a river

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16
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Jargon

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Specialized terminology
Ruby players will say things others don’t understand.
Pilot using Pilot language

17
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Code Switching

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A person changing languages
Go get the kai

18
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Simile

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A simile is a comparison using like or as

19
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Euphemism

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A word or phrase that softens a topic
He passed away

20
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Irony

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Use of irony to mock
Someone who is on top of things is very disorganized

21
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Cliche

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Words that are overused unspecific
Every cloud has a silver lining

22
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Archaism

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A thing that is old or old fashioned
Thee Thou

23
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Simple Sentence

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Sentence made of one independent clause one subject and often a single verb
I walked the cat

24
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Style

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How the author sounds when they write
Formal in formal writing

25
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Connotation

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When a word causes the reader to feel or think of something else
Liar, Broke, Strong, tough, confident

26
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Complex Sentence

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Sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause
Even though it was raining, I decided to walk my cat

27
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Incomplete Sentence

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A sentence that can not stand alone because it is not an independent clause
In the last two months of her life, Sally white wrote

28
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Short Sentence

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Sentence built from a minimum of a subject and a main verb
We always eat dinner together

29
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Symbolism

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When something in the text represents something else
A dove (represents peace )