Literacy techniques Flashcards
Meaning and effect: Allegory
A text with a hidden meaning
Meaning and effect: Alliteration
Repetitive of consonants at the beginning of successive words and emphasises the phrase and makes the text sound better
Meaning and effect: Ambiguity
When the text doesn’t explicitly state what something has happened which creates mystery
Meaning and effect: Assonance
Similar to alliteration but vowels are repeated and emphasises the phrase and makes the text sound better
Meaning and effect: Imagery
Words that create a mental image and creates a visual of the suitation
Meaning and effect: Metaphor
Comparing 2 things by saying that 1 ‘is’ the other in order to draw comparisons and emphasis
Meaning and effect: Motif
An idea, symbol, object, or theme that is always present throughout an entire text, playing a symbolic role in the narrative
Meaning and effect: Oxymoron
2 contradictory words used together to create a complex thing that makes sense
Meaning and effect: Pathetic fallacy
Giving animals and inanimate objects human feelings
Meaning and effect: Personification
Attributing human characteristics to non-human objects, by which inanimate objects appear to have life
Meaning and effect: Enjambment
The lack of punctuation at the end of a line to allow the idea to continue to the next line
Meaning and effect: Anaphora
The overuse of a phrase or a word at the beginning of a line or sentence to emphasis it
