english techniques

• zoomorphism: human to animals

  ex: a centaur
• alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
• anaphora: repeating word or phrase at the start of successive sentences/clauses
• epiphora: repeating word or phrase at the end of successive sentences/clauses
• hyperbole: exaggerated statement, not meant to be taken literally
• personification: giving human qualities to non-human things or ideas
• litotes: understatement using negative form
• oxymoron: combination of contradictory terms.
• metaphor: a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating one thing is another

  ex: she's got a heart of gold
• synecdoche: parts of a whole

  ex: all hands on deck
• hyperbole: exaggeration used for emphasis
• allegory: a story that uses symbols to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
• allusion: a reference to something outside the text, usually a literary or historical reference, that is intended to be understood by the reader
• simile: comparison using 'like' or 'as'. ex: he was as strong as an ox
• imagery: use of descriptive language to create mental images
• caesura: a pause in the middle of a line of poetry, usually to indicate a change in thought or mood
• cacophony: a noisy, discordant sound or a noisy, discordant situation
• consonants: the sounds that are produced by the vocal cords and lips
• assonance: repetition of consonants anywhere
• paradox: a statement that seems to contradict itself, but is true
• parallelism: the repetition of the same word or phrase in close proximity to another
• syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
• motif: repeated element ie  image, word, technique
•  Intertextuality: The use of other texts or media in the creation of a new text or media.
• Synesthesia: The experience of associating sensations with different senses.
• Metonymy: A figure of speech in which a word is used to represent something else.