Language forms

• When an object is described in relation to a person?

  -Personification
• ‘as… as a…’ , ‘like a’ ?

  -Simile
• An exaggeration?

  -Hyperbole
• When something is described as something not directly applicable, a resemblance?

  -Metaphor
• When the weather is used to describe a mood, tone or feeling?

  -Pathetic fallacy
• When words begin with the same first letter?

  -Alliteration
• When a vowel or sound in a word is repeatedly stressed (e.g. sharp dark glance)?

  -Assonance
• When a phrase contains words that contradict itself?

  -Oxymoron (or juxtaposition)
• The repetition of the letter ‘s’ in a sentence?

  -Sibilance
• Words being repeated?

  -Repetition
• When a phrase is said in a casual manner?

  -Colloquial language
• When the writer describes anything to do with the senses?

  -(for sight) Visual imagery

  -(for hearing) Auditory imagery

  -(for feeling) Tactile imagery

  -(for taste) Gustatory imagery

  -(for smell) Olfactory imagery
• When the writer says anything about birds?

  -Ornithological imagery
• When a sound is written?

  -Onomatopoeia