Language Devices and their Effect on the Reader

Repetition (i.e. We care about plants. We care about trees. We care about the environment.)

Facts and statistics (i.e. 90% of users agree.)

Pronouns (i.e. collective 'we', direct 'you', 'it').

Alliteration (i.e. greasy grandmas)

Rhetorical question (i.e. How many roads must a man walk before you call him a man?)

Emotive Language (i.e. A distressing and harrowing example of cruelty)

List of three (i.e. lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my)

Simile (i.e. cut like a blade)

Metaphor (i.e. Her hair is a lion's mane)

Personification (i.e. The trees grabbed at him)

Point of View (i.e. Third person 'he/she/it', first person 'i', second person 'you')

Five senses (sounds, sight, taste, smell, feel)

Short sentences (i.e. Stop. Look. Listen.)

Contractions (i.e. 'I'm' instead of 'I am') and colloquials (language used with an informal meaning, i.e. 'chill,' 'take a rain check')

Hyperbole (i.e. 'My life is over' - an exaggeration)

Irony (saying one thing when the opposite is meant) and puns (a play on words)

Onomatopoeia (i.e. 'crunch', 'pow')