Lang techniques

    Cards (12)

    • Metaphor
      A comparison made without using 'like' or 'as'.
    • Simile
      Saying something is 'like' or 'as' something
    • Personification
      Giving non-human things human qualities
    • motif
      Any repeated idea, theme or image that has a symbolic significance in the text.
    • Repetition
      Words or phrases that are repeated throughout a text
    • Alliteration
      The repetition of the same sounds usually at the beginning of words.
    • allegory
      Story with a second distinct meaning
    • Anagnorisis
      Moment when protagonist realises whats going on
    • Dramatic irony
      when the audience knows something the speaker doesn't
    • Epistrophe
      Opposite of an anaphora
      Repeated word or phrase at the end of a few lines
    • Epizeuxis
      Repetition of a word or phrase one after the other
    • Foreshadowing
      a device which earlier events in a narrative help the reader predict later ones
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