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Language features
Question | Answer |
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Imperative | A command (Eg. go, buy now, imagine) |
Alliteration | Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words |
Jargon | Language specific to a certain group or profession |
Allusion | Reference to an event or person. |
Colloquial Language | Informal or conversational language |
Euphemism | Less blunt/harsh way of saying something |
Synonym | Words with similar/identical meanings |
Antonym | Words with opposite meanings |
Irony | Statement that contradicts actual events |
Hyperbole | Exaggeration for emphasis |
Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound |
Pun | Joke making use of the different meanings of a word |
Enjambment | Continuation of a sentence from one line to another in poetry |
Rhyming couplet | A pair of lines that rhyme with each other in poetry |
Caesura | Pause in the middle of a line in poetry |
End Rhyme | Rhyming in the last word of two or more lines in poetry |
Connotation | Suggested meaning of a word |
Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word |
Antithesis | Using opposing/contrasting ideas in one sentence |
Oxymoron | Figure of speech using contradicting terms |
Quatrain | Stanza of 4 lines. Using alternate rhymes |