language techniques

• Alliteration


  2 or more words starting with the same letter.
• simile


  comparing 2 things using like or as
• metaphor


  describing something as if it were something else
• pathetic fallacy


  weather reflects the atmosphere
• oxymoron


  2 opposites are shown
• semantic field 


  ongoing theme/category
• Onomatopoeia


  words that sound like themselves eg. woof, bang
• hyperbole


  over exaggeration
• personification


  objects given human-like qualities
• Auditory imagery


  hear
• olfactory imagery 


  smell
• tactile imagery


  touch