Features Of Style/writing

Question 1

Alliteration

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Words beginning with the same letter.creates musical harmony

Question 2

Analogy

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An illustration that uses a comparison with something similar

Question 3

Analytical style

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Analyses an argument/theory/thesis/opinion

Question 4

Anecdotal style/anecdotes

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Anecdotes are stories from personal experience

Question 5

Antithesis

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Contrast/difference

Question 6

Argumentative style

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Writer presents an argument

Question 7

Assonance

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Use of long and slow vowel sounds

Question 8

Autobiographical style

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Writing about one’s own life

Question 9

Bombastic style

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Excessive or exaggerated

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Colloquial style/colloquialism

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Informal language appropriate to conversation

Question 11

Descriptive style

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This is an emphasis on description with the use of images and adjectives

Question 12

Direct style

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The writer is assertive and presents a strong and definite opinion.It gives authority to what is written and is usually convincing

Question 13

Didactic style

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The writer seeks to educate and instruct the reader.contains a moral or message

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Euphemistic style

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A sentence that softens or tones down a direct/blunt statement

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Fable

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A story containing a message conveyed through animal characters

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Factual style

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Uses many details/dates/statistics

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Figurated

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(Metaphors,similes,personification):this creates a vivid impact

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Forceful verbs:

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Action words containing power,energy,violence.it creates a tension-filled tone

Question 19

Humour

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The writer is funny.it adds entertainment to a piece of writing and the audience can relate to it

Question 20

Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Image

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Any description that appeals to the other senses.visual/tactile/gustatory/aural

Question 22

Interrogative style

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A passage/text that asks/poses many questions and usually answers them in the same piece

Question 23

Irony

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The opposite of what is expected; the difference between apparently and reality

Question 24

Listing

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Elaborates on the point and reinforces it in an effective and persuasive manner

Question 25

Metaphor

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A comparison that does not use ‘like’ or ‘as’.this is called metaphorical language/style

Question 26

Nostalgic style

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A piece where a writer looks back fondly upon the past

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Allegory

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Symbols/symbolic figures that represent a deeper truth

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Onomatopoeia

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Where the sound is similar to the meaning

Question 29

Oxmoron

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Two words together one contradicting

Question 30

Personal style

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Writing about ones own experience

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Pun

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A play on words

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Quixotic style

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An excellent enteric/esoteric approach to a subject

Question 33

Rhetorical style/questions

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Questions that directly address the reader and increase reader involvement with the text. The text does not look for an answer

Question 34

Reference to other authors

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This lens authority to an argument it in no longer a subjective opinion or statement

Question 35

Reverence

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Emphasises the point of being made.word/Sentences/phrases repeated

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Simile

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A comparison between two things using the words like or as

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Short emphatic Sentences

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Sentences that to tension or create a sense of urgency at a particular moment

Question 38

Sibilants

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Use of s sound in a sentence

Question 39

Superlatives

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Adjectives that are exaggerated to emphasise that the person/thing being described has quality to be degree greater than anything or anyone comparable . It means superior to others., found in excessive or exaggerated language with many adjectives