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| Question | Answer |
| Onomatopoeia | Effect words such as 'Bang' are known as Onomatopoeia. These are used to create imagery |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration used to increase the levels of emotion shown by the writer ('I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse') |
| Personification | Imagery that humanizes an inanimate object ('Opportunity was knocking at her door') |
| Adjectives | A descriptive word ('Blue') |
| Vocabulary | The body of words used in a particular language |
| Simile | A direct comparison using 'as' or 'like' ('He was as cunning as a fox') |
| Noun | A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ). |
| Oxymoron | Words in conjunction that directly contradict each other ('Pretty ugly' or 'Dead gorgeous') |
| Rhetorical question | A question used for effect, usually does not require an answer ('Are you stupid?') |
| Repetition | Repeating a word throughout a text for effect ('No, no, no') |
| Emotive Language | Words that are chosen to provoke a certain emotion from the reader ('Ecstatic, repulsive, tremendous, ect.') |
| Alliteration | Corresponding words that start with the same letter ('Lucy loves lemonade') |
| Sibilance | A form of aliteration where the beginning of the letters start with 's' ('She sells sea shells on the sea shore') |
| Anecdote/ Analogy | A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
| Triadic structure | A group of three things/words, especially of three closely related persons or things ('I came; I saw; I conquered') |
| Connectives | Used to extend on an idea, to sequence, or to add ideas |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech used to describe an object or person, but not literally ('raining cats and dogs') |
| Pun | A joke that uses a play on words, either with different meanings of the same word or words that sound similar ('Where do you find giant snails? On the ends of giants' fingers') |
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