Techniques

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Chloe  Buxton
Mind Map by Chloe Buxton, updated more than 1 year ago
Chloe  Buxton
Created by Chloe Buxton about 8 years ago
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Techniques
  1. METAPHOR
    1. Creates more vivid description
      1. A descriptive technique that names a person, thing or action as something else
      2. SIMILE
        1. 'LIKE' 'AS' or 'THAN'
          1. A descriptive technique that compares one thing with another,
          2. PERSONIFICATION
            1. A metaphor attributing human feelings to an object
            2. PATHETIC FALLACY
              1. A type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather
              2. ONOMATOPOEIA
                1. Words that sound a little like they mean.
                2. EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
                  1. Language intended to create an emotional response
                  2. OXYMORON
                    1. A phrase combining two or more contradictory terms
                    2. PATHETIC FALLACY
                      1. A type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather
                      2. HYPERBOLE
                        1. A use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect
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