Language

• Pathetic fallacy

  • Weather or atmosphere reflects the mood
• Personification

  • Non-human given human qualities
• Simile

  • Comparing using "like" or "as"
• Metaphor

  • Comparing using is or are
• Extended metaphor
• Oxymoron

  • two opposite words side by side
• Juxtaposition

  • two opposite ideas
• symbolism

  • objects are linked and present meaning
• Semantic field

  • Words across an extra linked to one idea
• Irony

  • Unexpected event
• Dramatic irony

  • The reader knows
• Rhetorical question

  • Question that doesn't require an answer
• Hyperbole

  • over exaggerate
• assonance

  • repetition of vowel sounds: a, e, i, o, u
• Alliteration 


  Words in a row that begin with the same letter
• Sibilance

  • words that begin with "s" sound or letter
• euphemism 


  something said in an indirect manner
• emotive language


  writer makes reader feel a particular emotion
• Onomatopeia

  words that describe sound
• rule of three 


  three words or phrases in a row that describes
• facts/statistics 


  evidence to support point
• plosives 


  repetition of harsh sounds
• zoomorphism


  given humans animal features
• opinions .
• repetition


  reputation of word or phrase for effect
• Nouns


  concrete, abstract, proper, collective, possessive
• verbs 


  doing word
• adverb


  adjective before a verb (ly)
• premodifiers /adjectives 


  describing word