Language Technique Flashcards
Personification
Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person
eg:
The tree danced happily
Alliteration
Multiple words with the same beginning in a row
eg:
Super Soft Snake
Onamatapia
Words describing sounds
eg:
The bacon sizzled
Metaphor
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
Simile
Using words such as , like and as to describe something
eg:
Sam ate like a pig
Sibilance
Having multiple words in a row beginning with S
eg:
Sam Saved the day
Rhetorical question
A question not supposed to be answered
eg:
You want people to live like this ?
Colloquialism
Using informal language
eg:
I was chantin to this geeza
Hyperbole
This is exaggeration
eg:
The man must of been 10ft
Imagery
Using words to describe a place
eg:
The mountain travelled across the horizon underneath the light blue sky
Noun
A noun is a person place or thing
eg:
The lady rode a boat
Verb
An action word
eg:
He yelled at the old man
Adjective
This describes a noun
eg:
The red rose
Adverb
This describes a verb
eg:
He slowly approached the old man
Repetition
This is where you repeat yourself for effect
eg:
“He was massive, then he walked over with his massive shadow”
Oxymoron
Using two words whit opposite definitions
eg:
They all had the same difference
Pronoun
A word to take place of a noun
eg:
He ate a burger
Abstract noun
Something you cannot see
eg:
He could feel the love in the air
Proper Noun
A noun that names a person
eg:
Henry loved dogs
Collective noun
A word that describes a group of nouns
eg:
These people are very annoying
Assonance
Repetition of sound that appears multiple times in the text
eg:
You could taste the spring paste
Dialect
A variation of standard language based on your location
eg:
Me ma is making me some proper sran today la
Dialouge
A conversation between two or more different people
eg:
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dissonance
Lack of agreement between two people
Eg:
“You smell”
Enjambent
Skipping to the next line of poetry
eg:
The night was
a cold one.
Irony
Saying to do something you are not
Monolouge
A long speech by a single person
Pathos
A quality that evokes pity/sadness
eg:
His ginger hair flopped on his face
Rhyme
Repetition of a similar sound
eg:
I sat on the grass, and looked through the grass
Rhythm
A repeated pattern of sound
eg:
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Caesura
A break between words within a metrical foot
eg:
Sing a song of sixpence//a pocket full of rye
Symbolism
Using symbols to represent ideas / qualitys
Semantic field
A set of related items
eg:
Clone trooper, Jedi, Sepratists, Republic
Preposition
Group of words that combine with a noun / pro-noun
eg:
The house with the red door
Article
A particular item / object
eg:
A car
Declarative
A sentence in the form of a statement
Exclamatory
An exclamatory sentenc expresses strong emotion and it ends with an exclamation marl
Interrogative
A sentence in the form of a question
Imperative
A sentence with a command