Language techniques

Language techniques

1. COLLOQUIAL: conversational English. Not formal. Audience relates to text as the mood is relaxed and free flowing.

2. FORMAL: Creates serious and informative mood.

3. SLANG: informal language

4. NOUNS: people, places or things.

5. VERBS: action words.

6. ADJECTIVES: words that describe nouns or pronouns

7. ADVERBS: describes a verb, adjective or other adverb

8. PRONOUNS: tells us who is speaking - 1st or 3rd person

9. ONOMATOPOEIA: words that sound like what they are for example bang , zoom and plop.

10. ALLITERATION: repetition of a constant sound.

11. IMAGERY: the use of language to create a picture.

12. SIMILIES: compares to different things using like or as.

13. METAPHORS: describes one thing as if it were something else.

14. PERSONIFICATION: giving an object human characteristics

15. OXYMORON: conjoining contradictory terms.

16. PUNS: play on words - double meaning.

17. RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: questions not expecting an answer. Used to make the reader think.

18. COMPARATIVES: compares two things or two groups.