Language devices

• Language devices 1

  • Alliteration: 2 or more words in same sentence which start with same words or sound.
  • Plosive Alliteration: Alliteration of harsh sounds
  • Bilabial Alliteration: sound that makes lips come together, eg. P, B.
  • Dental plosive Alliteration: Use of teeth, eg. D, T
  • Guttural Alliteration: sound from back of throat, eg. G, K, C.
  • Fricative Alliteration: makes mouth make a shape, eg. Fh, Ph, V.
  • Sibilance : Alliteration of S
• Language devices 2 :

  • Oxymoron: 2 opposite words next to each other.
  • Polysyndeton: Repetition of a connective.
  • Animal imagery: something being described or compared to an animal
  • Zoomorphism: human to animal.
  • Anthropomorphism: animal to human.
  • Chremamorphism: human to a thing.
  • Microcosm: a character or object which symbolise something much bigger.
  • Allegroy: whole text symbolises something much bigger or has a wider message.