Language devices
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- Created on: 22-04-16 10:20
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- Language Devices
- Alliteration
- The first letter or sound of a word is repeated in words that follow
- Emphasises the words used
- Emotive language
- Use of words to create a specific emotion
- Draws an emotional response from the reader
- Anecdote
- "Short story" used as background information
- Draws an emotional response from the reader
- Assonance
- Repeat of the same vowel sound
- Emphasises the words used
- Hyperbole
- Exaggerating for literary purpose
- Used to emphasise a point
- Tone
- The feeling that pervades the text
- Gives a specific feel to the text to draw an emotional response from the reader
- Imagery
- Comparing something "real" with something "imagined"
- Creates a picture in the readers mind
- Alliteration
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