language devices

• Pathetic fallacy


  Weather reflects mood
• Chremamorphism


  Giving human qualities to objects
• Metaphor


  Comparing two nouns - is
• Extended metaphor


  Explaining a metaphor in more detail
• Oxymoron


  Two opposite words used together
• Sibilance


  Alliteration with 's' sounds
• Emotive language


  Language used to create an emotional response
• Nouns


  Names , places
• Verbs


  Doing words
• Adverbs


  Describe the verb
• Euphemism


  A nicer way of saying something
• Hypophora


  Asking a question and then answering it
• Symbolism


  A symbol that has wider meanings
• Anachronism


  Something that doesn't fit the time period
• Dramatic irony


  When the audience knows something the characters don't