Language (Year 11) Flashcards
Addressing the reader
Indirect reader involvement
Emotive Language
Greater Authority
Talking to the reader (Surely you accept)
Indirectly talking to reader (Imagine a time when)
Appealing to feelings (I have a dream)
Quote important people (Scientists believe)
Superlatives
Graphic Language
Rapport with reader
Repetition
Extreme (Most important)
Create emotions with imagery (Britain is a beacon)
Bond, like a friend (Dear friends/we)
Repeat for effect (I have a dream)
Quotation
Personal Anecdote
Rhetorical Question
Pun
Add credibility (Martin Luther King said…)
Small personal story (Today I saw…)
Ask for effect, no answer (How many times have I asked)
Play on words (The pigs were a squeal)
Assertive Langauge
Hyperbole
Statistics
Tone
Self confident (Everybody knows)
Deliberate exaggeration (You could freeze out there)
Facts to add credibility (80% people say)
Way a text is written (Indignant, melancholic)
Rule of 3
Alliteration
Assonance
Contrast
Humour
Blood, sweat and tears
Pick up your pens and proceed
The moon is a balloon
Best of times, Worst of times
Joke (Who is roundest knight, Sir Cumference)
What does blue mean?
Sea, men, peace, sadness, trust, coolness, confidence, depression, coldness, obscenity, strength, friendliness, water, ice, dependability, cleanliness.
What does purple mean?
Royalty, wisdom, spirituality, creativity, wealth, ceremony, arrogance, flamboyance, gaudiness, mourning, romanticism, delicacy, penance, bravery.
What does green mean?
Nature, spring, fertility, youth, wealth, good luck, Irish, calmness, generosity, go, aggression, jealousy, illness, greed, renewal, growth.
What does red mean?
Anger, love, bleed, passion, strength, energy, fire, excitement, speed, arrogance, ambition, power, danger, war, aggression, stop, communism, mars.
What does black mean?
Death, funerals, evil, power, formality, elegance, mystery, fear, seriousness, darkness, rebellion.
What does white mean?
Purity, cleanliness, neutrality, truth, snow, winter, coldness, peace, simplicity, surrender, unimaginative, bland, empty, unfriendly, unknown, sterile.
What does grey mean?
Gloomy, depressing, bland, stability, wisdom, old age, boredom, decay, dullness, dust, pollution, neutrality, mourning.
What does pink mean?
Femininity, sympathy, joy, love, health, breast cancer, marriage, homosexuality.
What does orange mean?
Energy, enthusiasm, happiness, balance, heat, fire, playfulness, arrogance, warning, danger, Autumn.
What does brown mean?
Boldness, depth, nature, richness, rustic, stability, tradition, fascism, dirt, dullness, filth, heaviness, poverty, roughness, down-to-earth, wholesomeness, steadfastness, dependability.
