Language Technique Flashcards

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Personification

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Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person

eg:
The tree danced happily

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Alliteration

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Multiple words with the same beginning in a row

eg:
Super Soft Snake

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Onamatapia

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Words describing sounds

eg:
The bacon sizzled

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common

eg:
I was in hell that cold night

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Simile

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Using words such as , like and as to describe something

eg:
Sam ate like a pig

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Sibilance

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Having multiple words in a row beginning with S

eg:
Sam Saved the day

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Rhetorical question

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A question not supposed to be answered

eg:
You want people to live like this ?

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Colloquialism

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Using informal language

eg:
I was chantin to this geeza

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Hyperbole

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This is exaggeration

eg:
The man must of been 10ft

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Imagery

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Using words to describe a place

eg:
The mountain travelled across the horizon underneath the light blue sky

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Noun

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A noun is a person place or thing

eg:
The lady rode a boat

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Verb

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An action word

eg:
He yelled at the old man

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Adjective

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This describes a noun

eg:
The red rose

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Adverb

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This describes a verb

eg:
He slowly approached the old man

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Repetition

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This is where you repeat yourself for effect

eg:
“He was massive, then he walked over with his massive shadow”

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Oxymoron

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Using two words whit opposite definitions

eg:
They all had the same difference

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Pronoun

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A word to take place of a noun

eg:
He ate a burger

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Abstract noun

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Something you cannot see

eg:
He could feel the love in the air

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Proper Noun

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A noun that names a person

eg:
Henry loved dogs

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Collective noun

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A word that describes a group of nouns

eg:
These people are very annoying

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Assonance

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Repetition of sound that appears multiple times in the text

eg:
You could taste the spring paste

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Dialect

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A variation of standard language based on your location

eg:
Me ma is making me some proper sran today la

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Dialouge

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A conversation between two or more different people

eg:

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dissonance

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Lack of agreement between two people

Eg:
“You smell”

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Enjambent

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Skipping to the next line of poetry

eg:
The night was
a cold one.

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Irony

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Saying to do something you are not

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Monolouge

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A long speech by a single person

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Pathos

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A quality that evokes pity/sadness

eg:
His ginger hair flopped on his face

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Rhyme

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Repetition of a similar sound

eg:
I sat on the grass, and looked through the grass

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Rhythm

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A repeated pattern of sound

eg:
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

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Caesura

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A break between words within a metrical foot

eg:
Sing a song of sixpence//a pocket full of rye

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Symbolism

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Using symbols to represent ideas / qualitys

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Semantic field

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A set of related items

eg:
Clone trooper, Jedi, Sepratists, Republic

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Preposition

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Group of words that combine with a noun / pro-noun

eg:
The house with the red door

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Article

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A particular item / object

eg:
A car

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Declarative

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A sentence in the form of a statement

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Exclamatory

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An exclamatory sentenc expresses strong emotion and it ends with an exclamation marl

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Interrogative

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A sentence in the form of a question

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Imperative

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A sentence with a command