English Techniques

English Techniques

1. Alliteration

   • What it is: It is the repetition of the same consonant sound in words occuring near one another
   • The effect: Creates a sense of movement, atmosphere, tone and often speeds up the pace.
   • Examples: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

2. Onomatopeoia

   • What it is: is a word that imitates the sound it represents.
   • Effect: It creates a sense of realism or action.
   • Examples: crunch, zap, boom, tick-tock, whoosh, tap tap tap, splash

3. Similes

   • What it is: an expression compering one thing from another using like of as
   • Effect: Creates a visual image that helps a particular tone, atmosphere or feeling
   • Examples: Your as smelly as a dirty sock, You look as hot as the sun

4. Metaphors

   • What it is: Comparing two unlike things without using the words like or as
   • Examples: He was a statue waiting for the news, I wish you weren't always such a chicken
   • Effect: "He was a statue" is to convey the sense of anticipation the subject was experiencing when waiting for the news

5. Personification

   • What it is: When a writer gives human quality to animals and objects
   • Effects: Creates familiar connection with the audience
   • Examples: My car drank the gas in one gulp, the picture of Jesus on the wall glared at me as if I did something wrong.

6. Hyperbole

   • what is it: is an obvious exaggeration or overstatement
   • Effect: Often to create humorous atmosphere
   • Examples: I'm so hungry i could eat a hole cow

7. 1st person Narration

   • What it is: spoken from a particular characters form a personal point of view. It is subjective and provides a bias perspective.
   • Effect: Makes the audience feel closer to character. It is more personal. The perspective is only filtered through one person's point of view
   • It uses the words( I , Me, We)

8. 3rd person Narration

   • What it is: the story is told by a narrator or god like person. It can describe actions and feelings of all characters.
   • Effect: You can hear everyones emotes rather then one persons, it provides multiple perspectives therefore has a less Bias perspective
   • It uses the words ( He, She, they) used in informational text types

9. Descriptive words

   • Said= interrupted, asked, shouted, whispered, replied, stated
   • Got= retrieved, bought, arrived, reached, grabbed
   • Went= Skipped, marched, ambled, clambered, plodded
   • Big= huge, large, massive, vast, enormous

10. Pun

    • What it is:it is a humorous play on words , often involving double meanings.
    • Example: Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana
    • Effect: Creates a light hearted, informal and often humorous tone/mood/atmosphere.

11. Symbolism

    • What it is: is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning or in other words it represents something.
    • Examples: Pink symbolizes the fight against breast cancer, The statue of liberty symbolizes freedom

12. The porpose is either

    • Entertain- for poems, jokes etc
    • Inform- newspaper, info report etc
    • persuade: ad etc
    • Educate- textbook

13. Tone= feeling

    • Think of an adjective to describe the feeling/emotion created. Happy, humorous, sarcastic, scary, depressing, excited , tense, suspense, disturbing.
    • Effect: Creates the feeling or atomosphere of a piece of writing.

14. Other: Text type links to purpose, advertisements and speechs persuade, poems and narratives entain and things like textbooks/ newspaper reportsinform

15. 2nd Person

    • Effect: Creates a connection between the audience and the composer. It makes the audience fell like you care about them.
      • It uses the words ( you, your, you'll)

16. Rhetorical Qustion

    • Effect:Causes the audience to ponder (to think about) the concerns of the composer

17. Inclusive Language

    • What is it: Uses the personal pronoun 'we'
    • Effect: Connects the audience to the speaker. Makes them feel like they are all on the same level.
    • Example: We are glad to stand together

18. Anthithesis

    • What it is: Is when a writer employs two sentences of contrasting meaning
    • Effect: It emphasises the the sentence
    • Example: When Armstrong walked on the moon it might have been one small step for man but it was one giant leap for man kind.

19. Euphemism

    • What it is: it is used to make something sound milder or it say something nicer
    • Example: Your father passed away

20. Irony

    • What it is: is a type of sicasium
      • Example: Oh what fine luck i had

21. Oxymoron

    • What is is: A phrase that contains two words that are contradictory (completly different)
    • Example: Living Dead, pretty Ugly, Random order, Growing smaller and big baby

22. Protagonist

    • What it is: the main character

23. Rhyme Scheme

    • What it is: Pattern of Rhyme amoung lines of poetry
      • using the letters ABAB CDCD EE

24. Setting

    • The time and place of the literary work

25. Soliloguy

    • What it is: is where a character speaks outloud to her or him thoughts aloud

26. Theme

    • The main idea of the work

27. Tone

    • The authors attitude towards the subjesct of the work

28. Tences

    • Present
      • Set at that current time
    • Past
      • Set in the past
    • Future
      • Events that are predited

29. Atmosphere

    • What it is: The mood or feeling established by the text

30. modality

    • What it is: the force that the words are delivered in
    • example: "we must take action," and low modality is gentle and open to interpretation,

31. Contrast

    • What it is: Comparing two strikingly different things
    • Example: thunder storms on one end of an island and clear, blue skies on the other end.

32. Impreeive voice

    • What it is: Forceful use of the verb at the start of a sentence or phrase
    • Example: "Go home and collect those unwanted mobile phones for recycling today!" To persuade your reader to take action

33. Rhyme

    • What it is : is the repertition of similar or identical sounds
    • Example: Look and crook

34. Parallel Construction

    • What it is: The placing of two words, phrases that are similar in length next to each other
    • Effect: To emphasise create contrast, build imagery and/or give rhyme
    • Example: The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer

35. Tricolon

    • What it is: a series of three parallel words, phrases or clues placed close together
    • Effect: Used to emphasis ideas and articulate points in a pleasing manner. Is used to stact on ideas or evedence
    • Example: I see pride, i see power, i see people read to stand up for there rights

36. Assonance

    • What it is: It is the repertition of the vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
    • Examples: Men sell the wedding bells, Go and mow the lawn.