Language Techinques Flashcards
Sibilance
Repeated ‘s’ sound
Assonance
Double vowel next to each other (oo)
Consonance
Double consonant next to each other
Personification
Give an object human like qualities
Repetition
Where a word or phrase is constantly repeated
Adjective
Describing word
Verb
A doing word (run)
Modal verb
A descriptive verb
Metaphor
Comparing something to something else without using like or as
Simile
Comparing something to something else using like or as
Alliteration
Two words starting with the same letter next to or on the same line as each other
Mono-syllable
Word with one syllable (hate)
Declarative
A statement (I went to the shop)
Exclamative
An exclamation mark
!
Imperative
A command
Paradox
Two contrasting things (love/hate) (black/white)
Intensifier
A word to add extra emphasis to a quote
Adverb
A word used to describe an adjective or verb
Superlative
A descriptive word
Pathos
Where sympathy or pity is brought up
Denounment
The end of a play/film/book where the story is set clearer
Exposition
The start of a play
Irony
Sarcasm in a speech of tone of voice
Dramatic irony
Where the audience know something a character does not
Anthropomorphism
Where an object or an animal is given human like qualities
Bathos
Where something changes from serious to disappointing or in serious
Hedging
To soften a conversation
Ellipsis
…
To create a pause
Hyphen
Elongated pause
:
Semi colon
;
Semi colon
Used in listing or as a comma
( )
Parenthesis
To add extra information
Foreshadowing
When something happens or is referred to at the start that happens later
Could be death
Vocative language
The way someone is addressed or spoken to
Sir, ma’am
Mam, mummy
Expletive
Swear word
Patriarchal society
A male dominated society
Iambic pendametre
10 syllables on a line
Rhyming couplets
Last two words on two lines next to each other rhyme
I went to the SHOP
I bought a LOLLYPOP
Pathetic fallacy
A method of expressing things such as through the weather
