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Language devices: similes, metaphors, alliteration and more
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- 1SimilesSimiles use like or as word to describe one thing as another.
For example:
She is as hot as the sun. - 2Cluster of 3A cluster of 3 is three words used in a sentence that all mean the same thing.
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She was Brilliant, amazing and fabulous. - 3OnomatopoeiaOnomatopoeia is when You use a word that is a noise also.
For example:
All of a sudden came a BANG! - 4AlliterationAlliteration is a sentence with the same first letter word close or beside another word.
For Example:
She sang Sweetly. - 5Rhetorical questionA Rhetorical question is a figure of speech turned into a question to make a point.
For example:
Can't you do anything right? - 6A Range of paragraph lengthsThese are paragraphs that are different lengths from each other.
- 7A Range of sentence lengthsThese are sentences which all have a different length to each other.
- 8Interesting adjectivesInteresting adjectives are adjectives that make the reader want to read on. These describe things with great detail.
Also they are interesting and that is what makes them less boring. - 9Exclamatory PhrasesExclamatory Phrases are phrases filled with so much emotion and ends with an exclamation mark.
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I Can't figure this out! - 10Emotive languageEmotive language is using emotion in a Sentence to effect the reader.
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He Died later that night. - 11ConnectivesConnectives connect praise to other sentences using-So, because, and.
- 12Metaphorsuses a figure of speech and turns it into another sentence using another word or phrase.
For example:
The curtain of night, all the world's a stage.
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