descriptive techniques

descriptive techniques

1. personification

   • humans feelings to an object
     • 'the sun smiled at the hills, ready to begin a new day'

2. simile

   • using 'as' or 'like'
     • 'the trees stood as tall as towers'

3. metaphor

   • names a person, thing or action as something else
     • 'the circus was a magnet for the children'

4. alliteration

   • the repetition of an initial consonant sound in successive words
     • 'a peck of pickled peppers'

5. hyperbole

   • exaggeration of something
     • 'the sun scorched through the day'

6. echoing

   • repetition of a sound

7. adverbs

   • definitely,completely,relly,certainly

8. simple sentence

   • a sentence with only one independence clause
     • 'he stopped'

9. adjectives

   • to describe a person, thing or animal
     • amll,call,clear,sad,bent,awful,shiny,gloomy,happy,kind

10. onomatopoeia

    • words that sound a little like they mean
      • cracked and crunched

11. dinamic verbs

    • abandon,ask, beg, drinkeat,call,rain,learn,listen,read...

12. oxymoro

    • a phrase combining two or more contradictoy terms
      • 'there was a defenig silence'

13. emotive language

    • words or phrases that hurt or insult someone or something
      • the innocent dog had benn left cruelly by its neglecful owners