english lang techniques

• metaphor

  a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• simile

  a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid 
• anaphora

  the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series of phrases or sentences.
• atmosphere

  the mode of tone set by the writer
• climax


  the most intense or decisive point
• exposition

  the start where ideas are initiated