Zusammenfassung der Ressource
English Techniques
- Alliteration
- What it is: It is the repetition of the same consonant sound in words occuring near one another
- The effect: Creates a sense of movement, atmosphere, tone and often speeds up the pace.
- Examples: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
- Onomatopeoia
- What it is: is a word that imitates the sound it represents.
- Effect: It creates a sense of realism or action.
- Examples: crunch, zap, boom, tick-tock, whoosh, tap tap tap, splash
- Similes
- What it is: an expression compering one thing from another using like of as
- Effect: Creates a visual image that helps a particular tone, atmosphere or feeling
- Examples: Your as smelly as a dirty sock, You look as hot as the sun
- Metaphors
- What it is: Comparing two unlike things without using the words like or as
- Examples: He was a statue waiting for the news, I wish you weren't always such a chicken
- Effect: "He was a statue" is to convey the sense of anticipation
the subject was experiencing when waiting for the news
- Personification
- What it is: When a writer gives human quality to animals and objects
- Effects: Creates familiar connection with the audience
- Examples: My car drank the gas in one gulp, the picture of Jesus on
the wall glared at me as if I did something wrong.
- Hyperbole
- what is it: is an obvious exaggeration or overstatement
- Effect: Often to create humorous atmosphere
- Examples: I'm so hungry i could eat a hole cow
- 1st person Narration
- What it is: spoken from a particular characters form a personal
point of view. It is subjective and provides a bias perspective.
- Effect: Makes the audience feel closer to character. It is more personal.
The perspective is only filtered through one person's point of view
- It uses the words( I , Me, We)
- 3rd person Narration
- What it is: the story is told by a narrator or god like person. It can describe actions and feelings of all characters.
- Effect: You can hear everyones emotes rather then one persons, it
provides multiple perspectives therefore has a less Bias perspective
- It uses the words ( He, She, they) used in informational text types
- Descriptive words
- Said= interrupted, asked, shouted, whispered, replied, stated
- Got= retrieved, bought, arrived, reached, grabbed
- Went= Skipped, marched, ambled, clambered, plodded
- Big= huge, large, massive, vast, enormous
- Pun
- What it is:it is a humorous play on words , often involving double meanings.
- Example: Time
flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a
banana
- Effect: Creates a light hearted, informal and often humorous tone/mood/atmosphere.
- Symbolism
- What it is: is using an object or action that means something more
than its literal meaning or in other words it represents something.
- Examples: Pink symbolizes the fight against breast cancer, The statue of liberty
symbolizes freedom
- The porpose is either
- Entertain- for poems, jokes etc
- Inform- newspaper, info report etc
- persuade: ad etc
- Educate- textbook
- Tone= feeling
- Think of an adjective to describe the feeling/emotion created. Happy,
humorous, sarcastic, scary, depressing, excited , tense, suspense, disturbing.
- Effect: Creates the feeling or atomosphere of a piece of writing.
- Other: Text type links to purpose, advertisements and speechs persuade, poems and
narratives entain and things like textbooks/ newspaper reportsinform
- 2nd Person
- Effect: Creates a connection between the
audience and the composer. It makes the
audience fell like you care about them.
- It uses the words ( you, your, you'll)
- Rhetorical Qustion
- Effect:Causes the audience to ponder (to think about) the concerns of the composer
- Inclusive Language
- What is it: Uses the personal pronoun 'we'
- Effect: Connects the audience to the speaker. Makes them feel like they are all on the same level.
- Example: We are glad to stand together
- Anthithesis
- What it is: Is when a writer employs two sentences of contrasting meaning
- Effect: It emphasises the the sentence
- Example: When Armstrong walked on the moon it might have been
one small step for man but it was one giant leap for man kind.
- Euphemism
- What it is: it is used to make something sound milder or it say something nicer
- Example: Your father passed away
- Irony
- What it is: is a type of sicasium
- Example: Oh what fine luck i had
- Oxymoron
- What is is: A phrase that contains two words that are contradictory (completly different)
- Example: Living Dead, pretty Ugly, Random order, Growing smaller and big baby
- Protagonist
- What it is: the main character
- Rhyme Scheme
- What it is: Pattern of Rhyme amoung lines of poetry
- using the letters ABAB CDCD EE
- Setting
- The time and place of the literary work
- Soliloguy
- What it is: is where a character speaks outloud to her or him thoughts aloud
- Theme
- The main idea of the work
- Tone
- The authors attitude towards the subjesct of the work
- Tences
- Present
- Set at that current time
- Past
- Set in the past
- Future
- Events that are predited
- Atmosphere
- What it is: The mood or feeling established by the text
- modality
- What it is: the force that the words are delivered in
- example: "we must take action," and low modality is gentle and open to interpretation,
- Contrast
- What it is: Comparing two strikingly different things
- Example: thunder storms on one end of an island and clear, blue skies on the other end.
- Impreeive voice
- What it is: Forceful use of the verb at the start of a sentence or phrase
- Example: "Go home and collect those unwanted mobile phones for recycling today!" To persuade your reader to take action
- Rhyme
- What it is : is the repertition of similar or identical sounds
- Example: Look and crook
- Parallel Construction
- What it is: The placing of two words, phrases that are similar in length next to each other
- Effect: To emphasise create contrast, build imagery and/or give rhyme
- Example: The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer
- Tricolon
- What it is: a series of three parallel words, phrases or clues placed close together
- Effect: Used to emphasis ideas and articulate points in a pleasing manner. Is used to stact on ideas or evedence
- Example: I see pride, i see power, i see people read to stand up for there rights
- Assonance
- What it is: It is the repertition of the vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
- Examples: Men sell the wedding bells, Go and mow the lawn.