techniques

• nouns are naming words
• concrete nouns name objects (eg chair, mountains)
• abstract nouns name ideas and feelings (eg love, suspicion)
• proper nouns have capital letters and name individual people, places days of the week/ months etc
• adjectives describe nouns (eg "the RED house")
• verbs are doing, feeling and being words (eg she walked)
• adverbs describe verbs; telling us how something is done (eg she spoke SLOWLY )
• onomatopoeia is the use of words which sound like their meaning
• alliteration is the use of a series of words starting with the same sound
• similes compare one thing to another directly, using 'like' or 'as'
• metaphors imply a comparison - written as if it was something else
• personification makes a thing idea or feeling into a person
• pathetic fallacy is giving an object human features.