Language Techniques Flashcards
Personification
Gives an inanimate object human feeling or characteristic.
The lightning danced across the sea
Alliteration
When the word starts with a sound or letter which is the same
The big bully, bullied the boy
onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Sizzle
Simile
When you describe something as or like something else
The table was as white as snow
Metaphor
Describing something like it is something
The boy was a pig
Sibilance
Having a sound repeated in a sentence
Sadly sam sold seven venomous serpents to Sally and Cyrus in San Francisco
Rhetorical Question
A question that doesn’t need answering
Would you jump of a cliff?
Colloquial language
The way you speak to a friend (informal language)
What ya up to
Hyperbole
Really exaggerated something
It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets.
Imagery
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary sense
The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet.
Noun
A object that can be touched
The MAN walked across the ROAD.
Verb
A word that is doing something
The man WALKED across the road.
Adjective
A word that describes a noun
The HANSOM man walked across the WIDE road.
Adverb
A word that describes a verb
The man walked ACROSS the road.
Repetition
When a word or phrase is repeated
Hart to Hart. Over and Over.
