Language Terminology: Effects
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- Language Terminology: Effects
- Metaphor
- Allows writers to convey vivid imagery, creates images that are easier to understand and respond to than literal language.
- Alliteration
- It creates a mood within the text. Also, the reader ponders on the significance of the emphasis on the particular letters. It can help set the pace of a piece, speeding it up or slowing it down depending on what sounds are used.
- Rule of Three
- Based on the principle that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than any other number. The reader is more likely to consume the information if it is written in threes.
- Emotive language
- Invokes an emotional reaction in the reader so they are more invested in the story.
- Personification
- connects readers with the object that is personified. Personification can make descriptions of non-human entities more vivid, or can help readers understand, sympathize with, or react emotionally to non-human characters.
- Repetition
- Heightens the importance of the particular words and makes them memorable.
- Onomatopeia
- Helps heighten language beyond the literal words on the page. The sensory effect is used to create particularly vivid imagery.
- Rhetorical Questions
- Helps the writer convey their perspective and get readers to agree with them.
- Hyperbole
- Often used for emphasis.
- Allusion
- Allusions give a deeper meaning to a story by referring to another piece of work that most are familiar with.
- Sibilance
- Slows down the reading process, and strengthening reading-comprehension as a result. Sibilance is of special use to poets because it encourages repeated reading of a group of words.
- Similie
- Creates a vivid image in the reader's mind, helping to engage and absorb them.
- Juxtaposition
- This placement of opposing content side by side creates tension that builds up to a climax
- Consonance
- Encourages readers to pay more attention to language, it can have the effect of slowing down the reading process
- Imagery
- Appeals to readers’ senses through highly descriptive language.
- Irony
- creates a contrast between how things seem and how they really are.
- Metaphor
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