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ENG LIT TECHNIQUES
Mind map: English literature techniques
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ENG LIT TECHNIQUES
alliteration
assonance
colloquial
dialect
dialogue
enjambment
- sentence continues beyond line/verse
hyperbole
- exaggeration
imagery
irony
metaphor
monologue
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
- 2 words that aren't usually associated are put together e.g. bitter sweet
pathos
- language that provokes feelings of pity or sorrow
personification
- attributing a human quality to a thing
repetition
- repetition of a word of phrase to achieve a desired effect
rhyme
rhythm
simile
symbolism
tone
lexis
synesthesia
- appeals to more than one sense at a given time
cliche
- overused expression that's lost its original meaning
pathetic fallacy
- attributes human qualities to inanimate parts of nature e.g. the weather
consonance
- Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
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- Mindmap listing a few literary techniques that can be mentioned in A Level essays - a few of these have definitions included.
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- Heloise Tudor
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