Unfamiliar Text

• Rhyme: Makes the text memorable - make poem amusing and can tie together the middle and end of verses
• Alliteration

  Make small sections of the text hang together and flow better. Draw attention to the phrase. Create a harder or softer mood in line with meaning.
• Assonance 


  Make sections of text hang together and flow better. Draws attention. Repetition of vowels generally give a calm mood unless sounds are the short vowels e.g. cat, pet, pin off, cup
• Onmatopoeia

  • Transfers us the setting
  • understand the actual sound better
• Parallel Structure

  • Provide rhythm
  • expands the detail of the description
  • create balance
• Simile

  • See objects in a new light - in way we have never seen them before
• An oxymoron is when two opposites are used in the same sentence - conflicting to the reader, enabling the reader to rethink on the two subjects
• Oxymoron also creates tension
• Hyperbole is an exaggeration
• Olfactory imagery - smell imagery
• Auditory imagery - what you hear
• Tactile imagery - touch imagery
• Anaphora ▪ repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
• Hyperphora - is a rhetorical question immediately being answered by the author
• Double entendre: Double meaning of one word
• Colloquial language can be used to make the text sound more realistic and add depth to an individual's characterisation.
• Colloquial language refers to informal words or phrases typical of a group of people based on where they live and not their place in society.
• Anecdotes can be used to support a point their making and a way of teaching the reader a lesson.
• Anecdote refers to a short purposeful story by the author.
• Allusions can be used to enhance the meaning of the text and make the reader feel they are a part of something bigger than them (console them).
• Allusion refers to when an author refers to another piece of text.