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Metaphors
Comparing one thing to another by saying it is that thing e.g.her heart was ice.
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Similes
Comparing two things by using like or as e.g.her heart was like ice.
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Personification
Giving inanimate objects human charicteristics e.g. the trees wispered in the wind.
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Pathetic Fallacy
When the weather reflects the mood of the writing e.g. she was sad and it wa raining.
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Pun
A joke or funny line usually because because of a play on words e.g. i was struggling to figure out how lightning works, but then it struck me.
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oxymoron
a set of two or more words that have oposite meaning that are placed in close procimity. e.g. crule kindness.
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hyperbole
exageration for effect.
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alliteration
the use of the same letter at the start af each word e.g. tall tree.
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sibilance
the repetition of s or sh. it creats a calm or scinister atmosphere e.g. she slithered silently
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onomatopoeia
words that sound like the word they are describing e.g. BANG!!
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emotive language
anything that makes the reader feal emotional. can be sad or happy but is ussually used to persuade someone of a partucular veiw.
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narrator.
the person telling the story can be 1st or 3rd and sometimes 2nd.
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tense
when the story is set can be past preasent or future. e.g. was is or will be.
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forshadowing
hinting at or showing what is going to happen later in the book also called prolepsis.
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Comparing two things by using like or as e.g.her heart was like ice.

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Similes

Card 3

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Giving inanimate objects human charicteristics e.g. the trees wispered in the wind.

Back

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Card 4

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When the weather reflects the mood of the writing e.g. she was sad and it wa raining.

Back

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Card 5

Front

A joke or funny line usually because because of a play on words e.g. i was struggling to figure out how lightning works, but then it struck me.

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