Techniques Flashcards
Personal Anecdote
Personal story
double entendre
one thing has two meanings
allusion
referencing to something else
Oxymoron
opposing words close together
Juxtaposition
conflicting ideas
Pun
play on words
intertextuality
mentions another text
symbolism
something represents something else
anaphora
repetition of a phrase at the beginning of as sentence
lexical chain
chain of linking words
diction
word choice
Enjambment
little or no punctuation
cumulative detail
commas separating words describing something
Anecdote
story
Lexical cohesion
list of words that all relate to one another
emotive language
high modality
Heteronym
one word spelt the same with two meanings
imagery
Sound, olfactory, visual, gustatory and tactile
Multi-sensory imagery
all of the types of imagery
pathetic fallacy
nature represents human emotion
Aposiopesis
not finishing a line, sentence or phrase. usually …
sibilance
repeated ‘s’ sound at the beginning of words
Paradox
seems untrue but has a truth.
repetition
repeating a line, word or phrase