Language Techinques Flashcards

(39 cards)

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Sibilance

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Repeated ā€˜s’ sound

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Assonance

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Double vowel next to each other (oo)

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Consonance

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Double consonant next to each other

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Personification

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Give an object human like qualities

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Repetition

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Where a word or phrase is constantly repeated

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Adjective

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Describing word

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Verb

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A doing word (run)

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Modal verb

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A descriptive verb

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Metaphor

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Comparing something to something else without using like or as

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Simile

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Comparing something to something else using like or as

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Alliteration

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Two words starting with the same letter next to or on the same line as each other

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Mono-syllable

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Word with one syllable (hate)

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Declarative

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A statement (I went to the shop)

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Exclamative

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An exclamation mark

!

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Imperative

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A command

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Paradox

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Two contrasting things (love/hate) (black/white)

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Intensifier

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A word to add extra emphasis to a quote

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Adverb

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A word used to describe an adjective or verb

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Superlative

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A descriptive word

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Pathos

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Where sympathy or pity is brought up

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Denounment

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The end of a play/film/book where the story is set clearer

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Exposition

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The start of a play

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Irony

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Sarcasm in a speech of tone of voice

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Dramatic irony

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Where the audience know something a character does not

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Anthropomorphism
Where an object or an animal is given human like qualities
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Bathos
Where something changes from serious to disappointing or in serious
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Hedging
To soften a conversation
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Ellipsis
... To create a pause
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Hyphen
- Elongated pause
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:
Semi colon
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;
Semi colon Used in listing or as a comma
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( )
Parenthesis To add extra information
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Foreshadowing
When something happens or is referred to at the start that happens later Could be death
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Vocative language
The way someone is addressed or spoken to Sir, ma'am Mam, mummy
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Expletive
Swear word
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Patriarchal society
A male dominated society
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Iambic pendametre
10 syllables on a line
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Rhyming couplets
Last two words on two lines next to each other rhyme I went to the SHOP I bought a LOLLYPOP
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Pathetic fallacy
A method of expressing things such as through the weather