Language Techniques Flashcards
1
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Anaphora
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A word which refers to a previous used word
2
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Asyndetic Listing
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A list broken up by commas rather than conjunctions like ‘and’.
3
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Didactic
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A moral message, meaning to give instructions.
4
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Hyperbole
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Use of exaggerated statements.
5
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Olfactory Imagery
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Appeals to the reader’s sense of smell.
6
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Prolepsis
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A flash forward. e.g the scense that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooage.
7
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Syntactic
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Relating to the arrangement of words within a sentence within a text.
8
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Temporal deixis
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Language which refrences or manipulates time.
9
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Tricolon
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Three parallel phrases/words are placed in succession within a text, without interruption
