Language Techniques Flashcards
Personification
Give an intimate object a human feeling or characteristic
Eg: The tree danced happily in the breeze
Onomatopoeia - a word that describes that sounds of the area
Eg: the door slammed without notice
Simile - two things are being compared by using like or as between
Eg’ the temperature pf him was like holding the sun
Metaphor - saying that you are there but its imaginative
Eh: i was touching the sun when i tapped my sons head
Sibilance - words that start with the same letter to create effect
Sadly samuel sold seven of them
Rhetorical question - a question that doesnt need an answer
Do you really want this?
Colloquial language - its a linguistic style used for a casual communication. Ways of saying things
Truck / lorry, soccar/ football
Hyperbole - exaggerated statements or phrases
I told you this a thousand times!
Imagery - a phrase that creates a sense on the reader to imagine what is going on
He can hear footsteps of doom nearby
Noun - Person Place Or Thing
Ex: the man walked across the road
Verb - a doing word
The man WALKED
Adjective - A word that describes the noun
The huge tree
Adverb - a word to describe the verb
The dog walked slowly
Repetition- a repeated word
She was gone. Gone
Oxymoron: words next to each other that mean the opposite
The same difference
Pronoun - refers of people or yourself
I, you, we, us
Abstract noun - instead of a noun you use a state
He rescued him with his bravery
Proper noun - words that are spelt with a capital letter
Josh, Joseph, White House
Collective noun - a singular word to describe a group of people
Crowd, family, brothers
Personification
Give an intimate object a human feeling or characteristic
Eg: The tree danced happily in the breeze
Onomatopoeia - a word that describes that sounds of the area
Eg: the door slammed without notice
Simile - two things are being compared by using like or as between
Eg’ the temperature pf him was like holding the sun
Metaphor - saying that you are there but its imaginative
Eh: i was touching the sun when i tapped my sons head
Sibilance - words that start with the same letter to create effect
Sadly samuel sold seven of them
Rhetorical question - a question that doesnt need an answer
Do you really want this?
Colloquial language - its a linguistic style used for a casual communication. Ways of saying things
Truck / lorry, soccar/ football
Hyperbole - exaggerated statements or phrases
I told you this a thousand times!
Imagery - a phrase that creates a sense on the reader to imagine what is going on
He can hear footsteps of doom nearby
Assonance
Meaning a resemblance pf sound between syllables of nearby words
Eg: killed, cold, culled
Dialect
- different ways of saying a word, usually in a poem
Eg: hello, howdie
Dialogue
A discussion between a certain amount of people
Eg: hey i need help lifting this box up
Dissonance
Lack of harmony among musical notes
Eg: baby crying,an alarm clock, someone screaming
Enjambment
A end of a sentence but doesn’t end with a thought but usually end with a cliff hangar
Eg “the good morrow’
Irony
Expression of a person using this language to mean the opposite
Eg: “good job” when he dropped his tray
Monologue
A long speech by one actor on a play or film
Eg: evies diary, fourteen…, faith alone
Pathos - a equality that provokes pity and sadness
The actor injects himself with humour and pathos into role
Rhyme- sound that end with the same sound to match
The balloon
Goes up in the moon
Rhythm- pattern of sound
Any songs
Caesura - a break between words within a metrical foot
Sing a song of sixpence
Symbolism - an image to show what it is
Dove is show for peace
Semantic field a set of related items
Toy can be said as: block toy block or just a toy
Proposition - to show where you in in a object
Below, above
Articles - piece of writing included with newspapers
News paper, assays, exam, story
Pathos - a equality that provokes pity and sadness
The actor injects himself with humour and pathos into role
Rhyme- sound that end with the same sound to match
The balloon
Goes up in the moon
Rhythm- pattern of sound
Any songs
Caesura - a break between words within a metrical foot
Sing a song of sixpence
Symbolism - an image to show what it is
Dove is show for peace
Semantic field a set of related items
Toy can be said as: block toy block or just a toy
Proposition - to show where you in in a object
Below, above
Articles - piece of writing included with newspapers
News paper, assays, exam, story
Pathos - a equality that provokes pity and sadness
The actor injects himself with humour and pathos into role
Rhyme- sound that end with the same sound to match
The balloon
Goes up in the moon
Rhythm- pattern of sound
Any songs
Caesura - a break between words within a metrical foot
Sing a song of sixpence
Symbolism - an image to show what it is
Dove is show for peace
Semantic field a set of related items
Toy can be said as: block toy block or just a toy
Proposition - to show where you in in a object
Below, above
Articles - piece of writing included with newspapers
News paper, assays, exam, story
Declaritive
A sentence in the form of a statement
Exclamatory
A sentence that expresses strong emotion, and it emds with and exclamation mark
Interrogative
A interogative sentence is usually in the form of a question
Imperative
A sentence usually contains a command
