language techniques Flashcards
metaphor
'’his hands WERE crispy’’ decribing something as they were that
alliteration
'’sally delivered salted crisps’’ something begining with the same letter
personification
'’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
similie
(the cat behaved like a tiger) ,( her eyes are like shining diamonds)
onomatopeia
SLAM BANG CRUNCH STOMP words that describe sounds
sensory language
ears sight smell touch taste
assonance
'’no pAIn no gAIn ‘’ the repetition of the same vowel or it can look like this ‘‘go slOW over the rOAd the ‘o’ sound
dramatic irony
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,
anaphora
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’
antithesis
‘man proposes , god disposes’ when something or someone is the opposite of what it is like love and hate rain and sun
caesura
is a pause normally signaled by a strong syntatic appears often in the middle or the end ‘‘to be ; or not to be ‘’
iambic pentameter
normally has 10 syllables per line for example ‘‘the which if you patient ears attend’’
imperative sentences
these are sentences that represent power and control like a leader for example ‘‘Now ‘’ Remember’’ or ‘’ Do not’’ its l like an order
zoomorphism
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
semantic field
a collection of words that relate to each oter for example ‘‘ocean blue waves tsunami sea tide ‘’