Flashcards
Shakespeare's Techniques
Cards in this deck (18)
- 1ImageryWhen you make someone visualise an image
- 2MetaphorSaying that one thing is something else
- 3SimileComparing two different things with the words 'like' or 'as'
- 4PersonificationGiving a non-living thing human qualities
- 5AntithesisWhen you compare two opposite things to show that the world is full of conflict
- 6RepetitionWhen you repeat a word multiple times
- 7AlliterationWhen words start with the same letter
- 8OnomatopoeiaWhen sound gets a word to make the reader imagine the sound
- 9RhymeWhen words sound the same or similar in their ending
- 10OxymoronWhen you put together two completely different ideas to make dramatic language
- 11PunsWhen a word has two meanings
- 12NeologismWhen you invent words
- 13IronyWhen you say something but mean the opposite - like sarcasm
- 14EpithetsWhen you put an adjective in front of a name
- 15InversionWhen you change the order of words in a sentence
- 16HyperboleObviously exaggerating - I'm so tired I can not work another step
- 17BombastLanguage used to show-off
- 18AssonanceA type of alliteration with vowels - A long song