Language Techinques Flashcards
What is Alliteration?
Alliteration is a language technique where a series of words always have the first consonant sound.
What is Assonance?
Assonance is a language technique where a repetition of words repeat the same vowels but start with different consonant sounds.
What is Emotive Language?
Emotive Language is a language technique where words are used to provoke certain emotions from the reader.
What is Colloquial?
It’s a language technique where it uses everyday language, not formal at all.
What is Slang?
It’s a language technique where there are very informal words or shorten words.
What is Jargon?
It’s a language technique where there are words used by a group or profession that others have a hard time understanding.
What is Neologism?
It’s a language technique where there are words that are new and is not in common usage yet.
What is a Cliche?
It’s a language technique where a common phase or opinion that is overused to the point it lacks any original thought.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
It’s a language technique where someone asks a question not expecting an answer but to prove a point.
What is a Simile?
It’s a language technique where a figure of speech is used to compare one thing to another thing of a different kind.
What is a Metaphor?
It’s a language technique where a phrase is applied to an object or action which is not literary applicable.
What is an Idiom?
It’s a language technique where it uses a phrase that has a literal meaning.
What is Personification?
It’s a language technique where it gives objects human qualities.
What is an Extended Metaphor?
It’s a language technique where it uses a comparison between two unlike things that go on though a series of sentences or a paragraph.
What is Hyperbole?
It’s a language technique where it uses exaggerated words or phrases.
