English techniques
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- Created on: 25-05-13 15:20
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- English Techniques
- alliteration
- the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow; the cold, crisp, crust of clean, clear ice.
- assonance
- the same vowel sound is repeated but the consonants are different; he passed her a sharp, dark glance, shot a cool, foolish look across the room
- imagery
- similies metaphors and personification they all compare something real with something imagionative
- colloquial
- language that is used in speech with an informal meaning
- dissonance
- a discordant combination of sounds; the clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves across the pray
- enjambment
- a device used in poetry where a sentence continues beyond the end of a line or verse
- metaphor
- a word or phrase used to imply figurative, not literal or 'actual', resemblance; he flew into the room
- onomatopoeia
- a word that sounds like the sound it is describing; splash, bang, pop, hiss
- oxymoron
- when two words normally not associated with one another come together; cold heat, bitter sweet
- personification
- making a non living thing do human things; the moon called me
- repitition
- the repetition of a word or phrase to achieve a particular effect
- simile
- a phrase which establishes similarity between two things to emphasise the point being made
- 'like' or 'as'; 'as white as snow'
- a phrase which establishes similarity between two things to emphasise the point being made
- alliteration
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