Language Techniques📝 Flashcards
What is a Similie?
Comparing nouns (eg he was tall like the London Eye)
What is personifactation?
Giving an object human charecteristics (eg the fire alarm screamed)
What is an adjective?
A word used to describe a noun (eg big dog)
What is a metaphor?
Descirbing something/someone as something/someone else (eg the man was a dinosaur)
What is a hyperbole
An exagerated speech not to be taken literally [sarcasm] (eg I’m so hungry I could eat a horse)
What is an adverb?
A word used to describe a verb (eg he can run quickly)
What does PETAL stand for
Point
Evidenece
Technique
Analyasis
Link
What is onomotopeia?
A word used to make a sound (eg BIM BAM BOOM!)
What is repetiton?
The repeating of a word (eg it goes on and on and on)
What is imagery?
A description of a noun or place that makes the reader use their mind to imagine what it looks like (no eg take too long)
What is foreshadowing?
The narrative that gives a hint of what happens later in the story (eg Her early interest in airplanes foreshadowed her later career as a pilot.)
What is a preposistion?
A word to describe where something is .eg. Up
What is an adverb?
A word to describe a word, usually end is ly .eg. quickly
What is a verb?
A doing word .eg. Walk
