Techniques Flashcards by elise p | Brainscape

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Personal Anecdote

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Personal story

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double entendre

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one thing has two meanings

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allusion

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referencing to something else

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Oxymoron

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opposing words close together

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Juxtaposition

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conflicting ideas

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Pun

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play on words

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intertextuality

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mentions another text

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symbolism

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something represents something else

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anaphora

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repetition of a phrase at the beginning of as sentence

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lexical chain

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chain of linking words

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diction

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word choice

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Enjambment

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little or no punctuation

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cumulative detail

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commas separating words describing something

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Anecdote

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story

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Lexical cohesion

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list of words that all relate to one another

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emotive language

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high modality

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Heteronym

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one word spelt the same with two meanings

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imagery

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Sound, olfactory, visual, gustatory and tactile

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Multi-sensory imagery

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all of the types of imagery

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pathetic fallacy

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nature represents human emotion

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Aposiopesis

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not finishing a line, sentence or phrase. usually …

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sibilance

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repeated ‘s’ sound at the beginning of words

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Paradox

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seems untrue but has a truth.

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repetition

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repeating a line, word or phrase

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personification

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giving non-human things human qualities and emotions

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metaphor

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saying one thing is another

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simile

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saying one thing is like another

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alliteration

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repetition if a sound at the beginning of words