Language Features

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Jargon
Words that seem complicated and difficult to understand if your aren't an expert.
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Informal language
Using slang or colloquial terms to create a friendly tone.
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Repetition
Making the same point or using the same words or phrases to reinforce your point.
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Formal language
A polite form of language for people you don't know well or to people in authority.
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Groups of three
Using three closely-related words or phrases to reinforce your point.
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Rhetorical question
Asking the reader a question that doesn't require an answer.
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Simile
Comparing 2 different things by using the words "like" or "as".
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Metaphor
Comparing 2 different things directly.
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First person
Using "I" or "me" to make writing sound personal.
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Direct address
Using the word "you" to speak straight to the audience.
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Third person
Using the noun or pronouns "he/she/it" or "they"
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Alliteration
Repeating letters or sounds at the start of a group of words.
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Rhyme
Using words with similar sounds: usually to create rhythm.
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Personification
Giving human characteristics to non-human things to create effect.
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Emotive language
Appealing to the emotions of the reader.
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Exaggerated language
Using words that make something sound much better or worse.
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Imagery
Painting a picture in the reader's mind.
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Antithesis
Opposite or constrasting ideas continued within the same sentance or clauses.
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Parallelism
When two ideas are parallel and in the same direction/ similar ideas, but different.
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Juxtaposition
An act or instance of placing close together on side by side ideas especially for comparison or constast. However, they don't have to be opposite, it can be a subtle contrast.
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Contrast
Use of differences and opposites. Used ver a long period of time.
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Dramatic irony
The meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters.
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Foreboading / Foreshadowing
They are the same thing, the feeling that something bad will happen, in literature, hints for events to come.
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Pathetic fallacy
When the weather mimics the events going on. Human emotions reflected in nature.
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Enjambment
A lack of full stops/pauses in poetry between stanzas.
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Card 2

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Using slang or colloquial terms to create a friendly tone.

Back

Informal language

Card 3

Front

Making the same point or using the same words or phrases to reinforce your point.

Back

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Card 4

Front

A polite form of language for people you don't know well or to people in authority.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Using three closely-related words or phrases to reinforce your point.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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