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Language Techniques Flashcards

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Personification

Give an intimate object a human feeling or characteristic

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Eg: The tree danced happily in the breeze

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Onomatopoeia - a word that describes that sounds of the area

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Eg: the door slammed without notice

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Simile - two things are being compared by using like or as between

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Eg’ the temperature pf him was like holding the sun

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Metaphor - saying that you are there but its imaginative

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Eh: i was touching the sun when i tapped my sons head

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Sibilance - words that start with the same letter to create effect

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Sadly samuel sold seven of them

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Rhetorical question - a question that doesnt need an answer

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Do you really want this?

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Colloquial language - its a linguistic style used for a casual communication. Ways of saying things

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Truck / lorry, soccar/ football

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Hyperbole - exaggerated statements or phrases

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I told you this a thousand times!

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Imagery - a phrase that creates a sense on the reader to imagine what is going on

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He can hear footsteps of doom nearby

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Noun - Person Place Or Thing

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Ex: the man walked across the road

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Verb - a doing word

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The man WALKED

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Adjective - A word that describes the noun

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The huge tree

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Adverb - a word to describe the verb

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The dog walked slowly

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Repetition- a repeated word

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She was gone. Gone

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Oxymoron: words next to each other that mean the opposite

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The same difference

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Pronoun - refers of people or yourself

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I, you, we, us

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Abstract noun - instead of a noun you use a state

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He rescued him with his bravery

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Proper noun - words that are spelt with a capital letter

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Josh, Joseph, White House

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Collective noun - a singular word to describe a group of people

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Crowd, family, brothers

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Personification

Give an intimate object a human feeling or characteristic

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Eg: The tree danced happily in the breeze

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Onomatopoeia - a word that describes that sounds of the area

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Eg: the door slammed without notice

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Simile - two things are being compared by using like or as between

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Eg’ the temperature pf him was like holding the sun

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Metaphor - saying that you are there but its imaginative

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Eh: i was touching the sun when i tapped my sons head

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Sibilance - words that start with the same letter to create effect

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Sadly samuel sold seven of them

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Rhetorical question - a question that doesnt need an answer

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Do you really want this?

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Colloquial language - its a linguistic style used for a casual communication. Ways of saying things

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Truck / lorry, soccar/ football

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Hyperbole - exaggerated statements or phrases

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I told you this a thousand times!

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Imagery - a phrase that creates a sense on the reader to imagine what is going on

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He can hear footsteps of doom nearby

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Assonance

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Meaning a resemblance pf sound between syllables of nearby words

Eg: killed, cold, culled

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Dialect

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  • different ways of saying a word, usually in a poem

Eg: hello, howdie

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Dialogue

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A discussion between a certain amount of people

Eg: hey i need help lifting this box up

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Dissonance

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Lack of harmony among musical notes

Eg: baby crying,an alarm clock, someone screaming

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Enjambment

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A end of a sentence but doesn’t end with a thought but usually end with a cliff hangar

Eg “the good morrow’

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Irony

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Expression of a person using this language to mean the opposite

Eg: “good job” when he dropped his tray

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Monologue

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A long speech by one actor on a play or film

Eg: evies diary, fourteen…, faith alone

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Pathos - a equality that provokes pity and sadness

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The actor injects himself with humour and pathos into role

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Rhyme- sound that end with the same sound to match

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The balloon

Goes up in the moon

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Rhythm- pattern of sound

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Any songs

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Caesura - a break between words within a metrical foot

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Sing a song of sixpence

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Symbolism - an image to show what it is

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Dove is show for peace

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Semantic field a set of related items

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Toy can be said as: block toy block or just a toy

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Proposition - to show where you in in a object

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Below, above

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Articles - piece of writing included with newspapers

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News paper, assays, exam, story

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Pathos - a equality that provokes pity and sadness

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The actor injects himself with humour and pathos into role

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Rhyme- sound that end with the same sound to match

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The balloon

Goes up in the moon

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Rhythm- pattern of sound

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Any songs

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Caesura - a break between words within a metrical foot

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Sing a song of sixpence

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Symbolism - an image to show what it is

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Dove is show for peace

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Semantic field a set of related items

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Toy can be said as: block toy block or just a toy

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Proposition - to show where you in in a object

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Below, above

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Articles - piece of writing included with newspapers

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News paper, assays, exam, story

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Pathos - a equality that provokes pity and sadness

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The actor injects himself with humour and pathos into role

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Rhyme- sound that end with the same sound to match

A

The balloon

Goes up in the moon

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Rhythm- pattern of sound

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Any songs

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Caesura - a break between words within a metrical foot

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Sing a song of sixpence

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Symbolism - an image to show what it is

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Dove is show for peace

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Semantic field a set of related items

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Toy can be said as: block toy block or just a toy

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Proposition - to show where you in in a object

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Below, above

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Articles - piece of writing included with newspapers

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News paper, assays, exam, story

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Declaritive

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A sentence in the form of a statement

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Exclamatory

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A sentence that expresses strong emotion, and it emds with and exclamation mark

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Interrogative

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A interogative sentence is usually in the form of a question

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Imperative

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A sentence usually contains a command

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