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ENG LIT TECHNIQUES
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Mindmap listing a few literary techniques that can be mentioned in A Level essays - a few of these have definitions included.
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english literature
eng lit
literary techniques
imagery
repetition
onomatopoeia
personification
metaphor
simile
irony
alevel
a level
english
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english
gcse
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ENG LIT TECHNIQUES
alliteration
assonance
colloquial
dialect
dialogue
enjambment
Annotations:
sentence continues beyond line/verse
hyperbole
Annotations:
exaggeration
imagery
irony
metaphor
monologue
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
Annotations:
2 words that aren't usually associated are put together e.g. bitter sweet
pathos
Annotations:
language that provokes feelings of pity or sorrow
personification
Annotations:
attributing a human quality to a thing
repetition
Annotations:
repetition of a word of phrase to achieve a desired effect
rhyme
rhythm
simile
symbolism
tone
lexis
synesthesia
Annotations:
appeals to more than one sense at a given time
cliche
Annotations:
overused expression that's lost its original meaning
pathetic fallacy
Annotations:
attributes human qualities to inanimate parts of nature e.g. the weather
consonance
Annotations:
Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
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