Language Devices
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- Created on: 20-01-18 19:36
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- Literary Techniques
- Simile
- A descriptive technique that compares one thing with another, usually using 'as' or 'like'
- Metaphor
- A descriptive technique that names a person, thing or action as something else
- Hyperbole
- A use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect
- Personification
- A metaphor attributing human feelings - actions to an object
- Pathetic Fallacy
- A type of personification where feelings are given to a setting, object or the weather
- Onomatopoeia
- Words that sound a little like they mean
- Oxymoron
- A phrase combining two or more contradictory items
- Emotive Language
- Language intended to make an emotional response
- Alliteration
- the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow
- Assonance
- the same vowel sound is repeated but the consonants are different
- Colloquial
- language that is used in speech with an informal meaning
- Dialect
- the version of language spoken by particular people in a particular area
- Enjambment
- where a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse.
- Imagery
- similes, metaphors and personification; they all compare something 'real' with something 'imagined'.
- irony
- the humorous or sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean.
- Pathos
- language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow
- Dissonance
- a discordant combinations of sounds
- Simile
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