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English Techniques
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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.
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