English Language - Language and Structure techniques

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Idiom
I do not have a literal meaning but i am not just a metaphor
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Alliteration
Alliteration is when their is more than one word with the same letter in the same sentence or next to each other
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Jargon
I show expertise in a certain area
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Colloquial Language
Informal Language (slang)
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Direct Address
When you say something using "you" or their name
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Direct Speech
A quotation of what someone has said in quotation marks
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Rhetorical Question
A question where you don't want or expect an answer
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Reported Speech
A summary of what someone has said
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Sibilance
A form of alliteration repeating the "s" sound
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Simile
When something is compared with something else using "like" or "as"
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Abbreviation
Where a word has been shortened to just letters (BBC)
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Acronym
When words have been shortened to one letter that can be a pronouncable word (LOL)
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Cliche
An over used word or phrase
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Dialect
A version of language spoken by particular people in a particular area such as Scotts
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Pathos
Language that evokes pity or sorrow
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Circular Narrative
The last line of the text takes you back to the beginning
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Story arc
I have a beginning, a middle and an end. I usually have a crisis point that is resolved at the end
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Dissonance
A discordant combination of sounds
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Extended Metaphor
Metaphor all through the text/song (Firework by Katy Perry)
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Imperitives
When you tell someone/something what to do
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Oxymoron
Where two contradictory terms appear in one conjunction
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First Person Narrative
The text refers to the speaker himself
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Second Person Narrative
Second Person refers to the speakers audience
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Third Person Narrative
Third Person refers to everybody else
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Flashback
The main narrative takes place in one time but their are episodes from the past included
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Pathetic Fallacy
Where you use the weather to represent the mood
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Change in Narrator
This is where you read the text from another character's perspective
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Dual Narrative
This is where their are two sides of the story often alternating between the two viewpoints
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Cliff-hanger
A dramatic ending to an episode or a book
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Shifts in focus
This is where you focus on one thing in one paragraph and something else in the next paragraph
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Verb
A doing word (accept)
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Adjective
A word that describes a noun
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Adverb
A word that describes a verb (accidentally)`
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Noun
A noun is a place or a thing (Paris)
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Short Sentences
Create tension/confusion
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Alliteration is when their is more than one word with the same letter in the same sentence or next to each other

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Alliteration

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I show expertise in a certain area

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Informal Language (slang)

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When you say something using "you" or their name

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