Techniques Flashcards
MEST: for fictional texts
Modality, Emotive Language, Syntax, Tone
PNM: for non-fiction
Progression, Narrative Voice, Modality
MISHAP: general techniques
Metaphor, Imagery, Simile, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Personification
JLEAAAVES: General techniques
Juxtaposition, Lexical choice, Enjambment, Anaphora, Anadiplosis, Anagnorsis, Epiphora, Volta, Second person appeal.
Modality
High: certainty, low: uncertainty - expression of a person
Emotive language
Words that inflict certain emotions (compassion, empathy) - challenges, confronts, conflicts certain ideas to impact the reader.
Perspective
What perspective is the text/image framed - can reveal emotions or a process.
SSP: visual texts acronym
Salience, Symbolism, Perspective, Engagement.
Other: body language, vector lines (where are my eyes drawn?), symbolism.
Syntax
Considering word order and structure
- elongated: sentences structured longer
- truncated: sentences structured shorter.
Types of imagery
Sound (aural), visual, touch (tactile), smell (olfactory), taste (gustatory), bodily feel (kinaesthetic), natural, environmental etc
Lexical choice/chain
Series of words used in a sequence connected to a similar lexical field/concept.
Anagnorsis
Key moment when character had made a great discovery about themselves/other, dramatised character growth
Anaphora
Repetition of the same word at the beginning of consecutive clauses or sentences.
Anadiplosis
Religion of the same word at the end of clauses or sentences.
Epiphora
Successive repetition of a word or phases at the end of a sentence or clause.
