ENG Techniques
Cards (61)
- Evidence from reliable sources. Can include facts, statistics or quotes from people with expertise in the area.
- Uses strong emotive language to play on audience's feelings and create an emotional response.
- Directly addresses audience using 'you', 'us' or 'we'.
- Saying something more than once for effect or emphasis.
- Questions which don't require an answer because the answer is embedded or implied already.
- Three parallel clauses, phrases or words one after the other.
- The more certain (the higher the modality), the more persuasive.
- Exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect.
- The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.
- Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.
- Lack of conjuctions between co-ordinate phrases, clauses or words
- The opposite of anaphora where a word or phrases is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses or lines.
- Use of literary techniques we have studies such as metaphors, similes and personification which can build a "word picture" in the reader's mind.
- Anticipating and negating a potential argument against the speaker's message.
- A tale involves real life events, a true story. Such stories can be used by writers as evidence to back their claims.
- To make a writer's position seem more credible, they may quote the opinions of experts that correspond with their own. As in a court case, experts are often called on to make one side seem stronger and more believable.(not a technique)
- A narrative poem that often has a repeated refrain
- A poem of 3 stanzas, usually with seven or eight lines; all stanzas end with the same one line refrain and no more than three recurrent rhymes.
- A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentametre
- A poem that pokes fun at a serious literary work
- A poem with 5 lines. 1 word for the title; 2 words on line 2 to describe; 3 action words on line 3; 4 words that form a phrase on line 4; line 5 is a synonym of line 1.
- 2 lines of verse that have the same rhythm and metre, usually rhymed
- A poem of lament for someone who died
- Long narrative poem that usually tells the story of a heroic deed.
- A brief poem in memory of someone who has died, usually on a tombstone
- A poem with no fixed metrical pattern
- A pastoral poem, usually portraying the ideal, picturesque aspects of country life
- Repetition of the first letter
- Repetition of a vowel sound
- The mention of someone who is not there
- A pleasant way to say something
- The way a poem is structured
- Saying something but not actually meaning that
- Two or more opposing ideas placed side by side
- A way of saying something is bad by saying its not good (he is not the sharpest tool in the shed)
- A name associated with a thing (Annabelle the horror film)
- What is felt in the reader
- Something that represents an idea relative to the theme and is repeated at least 2 times
- 2 completely opposite words/ideas right next to each other
- When there is a contradiction/When something doesn't make sense at first but does when you read it again