Language techniques
Cards (13)
- pathetic fallacy - the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.
- Personification - when something non human is given human qualities
- Simile - companing 2 things using like or as.. as
- Metaphor -Comparing 2 things using is or are
- Extended Metaphor- explaining the metaphor
- Oxymoron - 2 opposite words, side by side
- Juxtaposition - 2 opposite ideas and explain how
- Symbolism - objects linked and presented with meaning
- Semantic Field- when words all link to same idea ormeaning
- Irony - events in text itself even suprise Characters
- Rhetorical Q - Q that doesn't require an answer
- Hyperbole - overexaggeration
- Assonance - repetition of vowel sound