Graphics are photos, pictures, diagrams, graphs and charts to illustrate what they're about. Captions are a short bit of text to explain what the graphic shows. Help the reader tell at a glance what the text is about.
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Presentation: Text boxes and text columns
Ways of presenting text. Columns make it appear shorter and easier to read. Text boxes grab your attention. Colour can be used to make them stand out or divide text into different sections.
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Presentation: Bullet points and numbered lists
Break texts down using dots, dashes or other symbols or numbers. Used when giving lots of information to make it easier to read.
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Presentation: Font styles and formatting
Fonts are different styles of printed text. Gives you a clue about what kind of text it is, i.e. serious/formal versus light-hearted/for children.
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Language Used: Descriptive language
Includes imagery such as metaphors, similes and personification. Descriptions can be based on 5 senses, sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. Use of adjectives. Used to give the reader a clear image and make it interesting, dramatic and real.
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Language Used: Metaphors and similes
Metaphors describe something by saying that it is something else, e.g. my feet were concrete; similes say it's like something else using 'as' or 'like', e.g. the warm air clings to my skin like a warm, wet blanket.
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Language Used: Analogies and personification
Analogy is like a simile comparing 2 different things e.g. hoping your exams will go ok without revising is like hoping to win lottery without buying a ticket. Personification means describing a thing as a person, e.g. helicopters prowl the city.
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Language Used: Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
Alliteration - using same sounds, e.g. Rooney Rules the Roost, Close Call for Kids; Onomatopoeia - using words that sound like the noises they describe, thud, boom, smash, hiss, etc.
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Language Used: Irony and sarcasm
Irony - when the literal meaning of the writing is the opposite of its intended meaning, e.g. we were stranded with no food which was just great. Sarcasm is nastier than irony and is mocking or scornful, Love the way they blamed us.
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Card 2
Front
Graphics are photos, pictures, diagrams, graphs and charts to illustrate what they're about. Captions are a short bit of text to explain what the graphic shows. Help the reader tell at a glance what the text is about.
Back
Presentation: Graphics and captions
Card 3
Front
Ways of presenting text. Columns make it appear shorter and easier to read. Text boxes grab your attention. Colour can be used to make them stand out or divide text into different sections.
Back
Card 4
Front
Break texts down using dots, dashes or other symbols or numbers. Used when giving lots of information to make it easier to read.
Back
Card 5
Front
Fonts are different styles of printed text. Gives you a clue about what kind of text it is, i.e. serious/formal versus light-hearted/for children.
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