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Language features
For the exam
Question | Answer |
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Simile | A comparison between two things introduced by the words of like or as |
Metaphor | A direct comparison of one thing with another without the use of like or as |
Personification | Giving human characteristics to a non-human for example an animal or an-inmate object |
Alliteration | A repeated consonant of sound. Helps emphasise the meaning |
Assonance | A repeated similar vowel sound. |
Onomatopoeia | A word whose sound reflects on the meaning like echoes it. |
Pun | A joke arising from words that looks the same or sounds the same. |
Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in speech but not dignified in formal writing or speech |
Compound words | 2 words joined together to make up a name e.g- surise |
Hyperbole | A deliberate exaggeration for effect e.g- ´I have done a tone of homework´ |
Narrative view point | The point of view, It is like the narrator is talking |
Repetition | words,phrases or sentences are repeated for emphasis |
Rhetorical question | A question that does not require an anwer |