Language techniques

alliteration

Emotive Language

Threes / List

Opinion

Using a succession of words that begin with the same letter: Timid Trevor tried to navigate.

A group of nouns, adjectives or verbs: Bold, courageous, gallant King.

Stirs emotion in the reader through specific choices in vocabulary

Personification

Giving an object human characteristics

Repetition

Reoccurring words or phrases

Offering your ideas and thoughts on a matter

Onomatopeia

Words that imitate the sound when spoken

Facts / Figures

Numerical values that offer logical information

Rhetorical Question

Evoking a reasoning response from the reader by asking a question that doesn’t require an answer

Exaggeration

Magnification or understatement about a matter

Allusion

Figure of speech that makes reference to a place, event, literary work, myth, art, etc. but it must be recognised by the intended audience

Direct Address

Talking directly to the audience

EFFECT? Recipient is mentally engaged with the text, as they draw on their own knowledge of the comparison.

EFFECT? It creates a mood within the text. Also, the reader ponders on the significance of the emphasis on the particular letters.

EFFECT? Imagine the items that are mentioned.

EFFECT? The recipient will feel like they are participating in a conversation, as they mentally formulate an answer to the question.

EFFECT? Stirs an emotional response in the reader which could motivate them to act.

EFFECT? The recipient feels included in the rhetoric and they mentally engage with the speaker.

EFFECT? The reader can relate to the movements and feelings of the inanimate object.

EFFECT? Heightens the importance of the particular words and makes them memorable

EFFECT? Mentally engages the recipient, as they decide whether they agree or disagree with the statements being made.

EFFECT? Compare the comparison with relate and discern the intended meaning of the statement.

EFFECT? Appeal to the auditory sense. The reader can imagine or hear the word in action.

EFFECT? Makes the recipient accept the reasoning as more authentic and plausible.