Language Techniques Flashcards
Allegory
Story with 2 meanings, one literal and one metaphor
Allusion
A subtle indirect reference to mother thing (text, historical period, religious belief)
Alliteration
Repeating sounds at the start of a word
Assonance
When similar vowel sounds appear together
Consonance
Repeating consonants throughout a sentence
Emotive language
Words used to stir the readers emotions
Hyperbole
A literary term for exaggeration
Foreshadowing
An allusion to something that will happen later in the narrative
Imagery
Vivid pictures created by words
Metaphor
Comparison of two objects where I becomes another. It adds further layers of meaning about the object being compared
Metonymy
A word or name that is used in the place of something it is closely related to
Onomatopoeia
A word which sounds the same as the sound it represents (boom, tap,drip)
Personification
Human characteristics given to a non human object. A kind of metaphor
Repetition
Repeating of a word o phrase. Must be interpreted in the context of the central themes of the text, could represent a cycle
Rhyme
A organising feature of similar sounding words repeating
