Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
techniques - Coggle Diagram
techniques
hyperbole
a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc
-
simile
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
-
rhetorical question
a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.
-
-
juxtaposition
which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
e.g. when it rains, it pours
-
-
-
-
-
assonance
-
e.g she shot a cool, foolish look across the room
colloquial language
-
e.g. out of this world, chill, take a rain check
dissonance
-
e.g. the clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves against the quay
-
oxymoron
-
e.g. cold heat, bitter sweet
-
rhythm
-
e.g. in Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott uses a strong internal rhythm to build up the sense of unrelenting monotony in the poem
-
metaphor
-
This is where a word or phrase is used to imply figurative resemblance, not a literal or 'actual' one.
-
-
irony
where words or ideas are used humorously or sarcastically, to imply the opposite of what they are doing
-
tone
the creation of mood in a text such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety regret or anger
-