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metaphor

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'’his hands WERE crispy’’ decribing something as they were that

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alliteration

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'’sally delivered salted crisps’’ something begining with the same letter

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personification

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'’PERSON’’ adding human traits to objects that do not beahve or are human for example ‘‘the sun smiled at me ‘’ the sun cannot smile at you however its a way of saying that something good might happen forward on

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similie

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(the cat behaved like a tiger) ,( her eyes are like shining diamonds)

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onomatopeia

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SLAM BANG CRUNCH STOMP words that describe sounds

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sensory language

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ears sight smell touch taste

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assonance

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'’no pAIn no gAIn ‘’ the repetition of the same vowel or it can look like this ‘‘go slOW over the rOAd the ‘o’ sound

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dramatic irony

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occurs when the audience knows something tats the characters don’t yet for example in an Inspecter calls when mr birling says ‘unsinkable absolutely unsinkable’ the audience already knows that the ship has sunk making mr birling seem like a fool and never trusting whatever he says and kind of disliking him already,

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anaphora

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repetition of a word or an expression at the beginning may be used in poetic references for example ‘ we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate’’ the repetion of cannot
like in macbeth ‘‘fair is foul and foul is fair’

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antithesis

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‘man proposes , god disposes’ when something or someone is the opposite of what it is like love and hate rain and sun

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caesura

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is a pause normally signaled by a strong syntatic appears often in the middle or the end ‘‘to be ; or not to be ‘’

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iambic pentameter

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normally has 10 syllables per line for example ‘‘the which if you patient ears attend’’

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imperative sentences

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these are sentences that represent power and control like a leader for example ‘‘Now ‘’ Remember’’ or ‘’ Do not’’ its l like an order

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zoomorphism

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human qualities to a non animal human or object for example ‘’ the ocean roared’’ the ocean cannot roar offcourse however it is a way to describe the ocean being aggressive or dangerous

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semantic field

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a collection of words that relate to each oter for example ‘‘ocean blue waves tsunami sea tide ‘’

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hyperbole

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exaggeration of things for example if you havent eaten for a few hours some people say ‘‘i am starving’’ but youre not actually starving youre just overexaggerating

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sibilance

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words that start with an ‘s’ so like ‘‘the shells were so shiny as shredded gold’’