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.
What is an Allusion?
It’s a language technique where it uses an indirect reference.
What is Symbolism?
It’s a language technique where it uses symbols to represent ideas or feelings.
What is Synecdoche?
It’s a language technique where it uses a figure of speech where a part is made to represent the whole.
What is Metonymy?
It’s a language technique where something is not called by its proper name but something else that has an associated meaning with it.
What is Sarcasm?
It’s a language technique where it uses irony to mock a concept, person or thing.
What is Irony?
It’s a language technique where it uses an expression of an meaning by using language that signifies the opposite.
What is Irony?
It’s a language technique where the use of comedy, exaggeration and irony is used to mock people’s stupidity.
What is a Parody?
It’s a language technique where there’s an imitation of a particular style, only to be exaggerated for comedic effect.
What is Subversion?
It’s a language technique where it goes against common tropes, think of Shrek against the typical fairy tale.
What is Appropiation?
It’s a language technique where a text borrows elements from another text.
What is Intertextuality?
It’s a language technique where it displays the relationship between literacy texts.
