Language Techniques and Structure Flashcards
Alliteration
A series of words in a row which have the same first consonant
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Allegory
Extended metaphor in which a story is told
Anecdote
A short story using examples to support ideas
Bias
Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair
Cliché
Overused phrase or theme
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds,
Caesura
A break in the middle of a line of a poem which uses punctuation ( . , ; : ect…)
Connotations
Implied or suggested meanings of words or phrases
Dialogue
Speech
Ellipsis
Using 3 dots as punctuation to express emotion or that something has been emitted from the writing
Enjambment
Incomplete sentences at the ned of lines of poetry
End-Stopping
Punctuation at the end of a line of poetry
Emotive Language
Language which creates an emotion with the reader
Exclamation Mark
! punctuation used to express surprise, shock, shouting, etc…
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor that continues into the sentence that follows or throughout the text
Facts
Information that can be proven
First Person
Using ‘I’ to tell the story
Humour
Provoking laughter and providing amusement
Hyperbole
Use of exaggerated terms of emphasis
Imagery
Creating a picture in the readers head
Juxtaposition
Placing contrasting ides close together in a text
Metaphor
A comparison as if a thing were something else
Motif
A recurring set of words/phrases or imagery for effect
Onomatopeia
Words that sound like their meaning
Opinion
Information that you can’t prove
Oxymoron
Using two terms together, that normally contradict each other
Pathetic Fallacy
Ascribing human conduct and feeling to nature and the weather
Protagonist
The main character that propels the novel forward
Personification
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, animals or natural phenomena
Repetition
When words or phrases are used more than once in a piece of writing
Rhetorical Question
Asking a question as a way of asserting something
Asking a question which already has the answer hidden in it
Sibilance
Repetition of the letter ‘s’, it is a form of alliteration
Second Person
Using ‘you’ to tell the story
Superlative
Declaring something the best within its class
i.e. the ugliest, the most precious etc…
Sensory Detail Imagery
Sight, Sound, Taste, Tough, Smell
Simile
Comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Statistics
Facts and Figures
Symbolism
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Third Person
Using ‘he’,’ she’, ‘it’ and ‘they’ to tell the story
Tense
Writing in the past, present or the future
Triplets
Repetition of three ideas, words of phrases close together
Tone
The way a piece of text sounds
Directive
Using you, we or us
Describe a Simple Sentence
Contains a single clause
Describe a Compound Sentence
Two independent clauses joined by a connective
each clause should make sense alone
Describe a Complex Sentence
An indépendant and at least one dependant clauses in a sentence
(clauses are not equal)
Clause
An indépendant idea which forms part of a sentence
Adjective
A word used to describe
Adverb
A word used to describe how something is done (often -ly words)
Modal Verbs
Verbs which offer a choice (e.g: could, should, will…)
Noun
The name of something
Pronoun
Short words used instead of names (i.e: he, she, you, it, they, us and them)
Preposition
Words used usually before a noun or pronoun to describe the relationship between the noun/ pronoun and the rest of the sentance (e.g: after, on, in with, to etc..)
Verb
A word used to describe an action
