Language Devices Flashcards

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Alliteration

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Same starting letters next to each other - ‘Adam’s Amazing Apples’

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerating/emphasizing - ‘I had to wait 70 years!’

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Tricolon/ rule of three

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Three ideas/phrases - ‘it felt empty, isolating, alone’

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Statistics

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Numerical evidence - ‘60% of students…’

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Anecdote

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Stories from the author - ‘I fell off a tree’

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Imperative

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Commanding the reader - ‘you must try this’

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Direct address

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Speaking to the reader - ‘you and many others…’

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Collective pronouns

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Addressing a whole community - “we must take action”

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Rhetorical question

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Asking a question as a point - ‘do you think this okay?’

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Emotive lang

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Words creating an emotional response - ‘it is vile and sickening’

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Counter argument

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An opposite view to yours - ‘although this seems bad…’

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Expert reference

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Quoting a pro - ‘ Dr ______ says…’

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Simile

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Comparison using as and like - ‘food hot as fire’

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Metaphor

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Direct comparison - ‘snakes writhing in his stomach’

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Prolepsis (hint: similar to counter argument)

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Imaging reader’s response - ‘you may be thinking…’

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Metanoia (hint: meta/breaking the narrative)

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Correcting yourself - ‘it bad -no- it’s horrible’

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Hypophora (hint: pop quiz/answering questions)

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Answering a question yourself - ‘do you hate it? I do’

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Repetition

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Repetition of same phrase - ‘I have a dream…I have a dream…I have a dream’

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Extended metaphor

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An explained direct comparison, ‘debt is crippling, your being constantly beat down before you can get up again.’

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Antithesis

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Contrasting ideas - ‘he’s a dormant mouse, she’s a triumphant lion’

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Pun

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Humour/word play - ‘EGG-cellent work!’

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Checklist for newspaper article

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  • an intro (add own view)
  • 5 persuasive phrases (show own views)
  • metaphor (extended)
  • simile
  • conclusion
  • Rhetorical question
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structure of article

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  • Intro (who, what, when, where, why, how) + own perpective
  • main body (statistics + expert reference) + persuasive view point
  • conclusion (next steps in future) + strong ending