english lanuage

Cards (22)

  • rhetorical question
    a question that doesnt need an answer.
  • alliteration
    same sound or letter repeated.
  • imperative
    command word
  • option
    someone option on something
  • repetition
    word or phrase repeated
  • emotive language
    language used to evoke the readers emotions
  • statistic
    set of numbers used to prove something
  • triple
    things said in set of three
  • metaphor
    a comparison between two things saying it is or was something
  • simile
    a comparison between two things saying its like or as something
  • onomatopoeia
    sound words
  • personification
    giving a non-human object human qualities
  • cliché
    over used common expression
  • sibilance
    repeated s
  • foreshadowing
    hitting at what is going to happen in the further
  • hyperbole
    used to add exaggeration
  • imagery
    to paint an image in there head
  • symbolism
    words used to describe another word
  • ellipsis
    three dots at the end of a sentence to leave on a cliff hanger
  • irony
    being ironic
  • enjambment
    used when a sentence carries on beyond the end of the line.
  • flashback
    going back on pervious events