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Similie

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Comparison - (indirect) - ‘like’ or ‘as’

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Metaphor

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Comparison - (direct) - ‘it is’

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Personification

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Giving human/living characteristics

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Sensory Imagery

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Uses the five senses to create images (touch, taste, smell, hear, see)

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Alliteration

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Repetition of sounds - ‘constant’

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Assonance

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Repetition of sounds - ‘vowel’ (PrOUd LOUd ClOUd)

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Sibilance

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Repetition of sounds - ‘sss’

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Repetition

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Words, phrases, images, ideas - two or three at least

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Onomatopoeia

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Sounds - ‘bang’ ‘crash’

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Rhythm

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Beat of the text - from syllables that are stressed

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Rhyme

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Repeated Sounds - (Middle or End of Sentence) - ‘string, thing, bing, sing’

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Allusion

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Using References - ‘the found their Prince Charming’ (alludes to fairy tales)

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Anecdote

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A story to show your point

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Rhetorical Question

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Question with already known answer

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Oxymoron

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Opposite - a ‘fun run’, ‘passionately hate’

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Cliche

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Overused phrase - lost some of its meaning

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration - ‘I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!’

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Jargon

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Technical Language - Specific to a group ‘NCEA’

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Colloquialism

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Informal Language - Specific to a group ‘gender, age, culture - (slang -rougher)

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Listing

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Usually three or more times - use of commas

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Pun

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A play on words with double meanings - usually based on a sound ‘knight/night’

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Imperatives

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Instruction/Command - persuades

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Superlatives

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Highest quality - ‘not great but greatEST’ ‘not young but youngEST’ - (‘est’)

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Euphemism

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Polite/Nicer way of putting something - Downsizing vs. Cutts

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