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GCSE English Language: Language Devices
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- 1JUST REMEMBEROH PAV SNORES AT CAMP
- 2OnomatopoeiaEffect words such as Bang are known as Onomatopoeia. These are used to create imagery
- 3HyperboleUsed to increase the levels of emotion shown by the writer (such as the pin was as big as my toe.)
- 4PersonificationImagery, used to relate the writer to an object (for example the rain cried away)
- 5AdjectivesUsed to create an image and often used to describe what something is
- 6VocabularyImagery, Used to expand sentences with different types of language
- 7SimileImagery to describe something like or as something
- 8NounProvides the reader with the name or name of a place
- 9OxymoronTwo opposing views of what the writer feels. For example 'I would be looking into its cute deep black eyes, and when you tell me to, I would smash its brains in.'
- 10Repertition/ RhetoricThe writer can increase the importance of specific information
- 11Emotive LanguageThe writer can portray strong feelings to the reader.
- 12SibilanceUses imagery and humour but instead of corresponding letters it is just an 'S.' for example 'sizzling Sausages.'
- 13Anecdote/ AnalogyImagery. The writer tells a short story to make the reader have a picture of what it is in their heads. For example 'I was with my sister one day and a sheep with guns came up to us.'
- 14Three (Rule Of)This is used to persuade and reinforce. For example The colossal, magnificent, delicious, sandwich
- 15ConnectivesUsed to extend on an idea, to sequence, or to add ideas
- 16AlliterationImagery and humour with the same corresponding letter such as 'amazing architect.'
- 17MetaphorUsed to create an image or to create questions for the reader. Such as 'The Paper under my feet' to describe carpet.
- 18PunHumour and can show the writer is clever. For example 'New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group.'
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