Stylistic Devices
The stylistic device used in this example:
Your grandmother is so old that she walked with the dinosaurs!
What is a hyperbole/exaggeration?
The correct salutation for a letter to the editor
What is Dear Editor?
The official name for the title of a newspaper article
What is a headline?
The official name for paper 1
What is continuous writing?
This figure of speech makes a popular reference to something from politics to mythology to the Bible
What is allusion?
This (of the four types of writing) is mainly used in a letter to the editor
What is persuasive writing?
These are usually included in the introduction paragraph of a newspaper article
What are the 5w's and how?
A type of question that will ask you to write a speech, newspaper article, or magazine article (to name a few)
What is a directed writing question?
Using facts, statistics and data to appeal to/convince an audience.
What is logical appeal/logos?
Establish the tone being used in this excerpt from a letter to the editor:
"I am completely distraught by the events of the mass shooting in California. Where is our humanity and what is the government doing to stop this?"
What is saddened or concerned?
The perspective/point of view a hard news article should be written from
What is objective point of view?
The first four or five questions on a Paper 3 BGCSE
What is multiple choice?
The device that explains the feelings we associate with words.
What is positive/negative connotation?
The general tone of a letter to the editor should be
What is formal?
Name the type of article featured below:
When you were a kid did you ever have to call your mother and the school wouldn't let you? Kids today still have to call their mothers sometimes! But the school won’t let them! It would be a great thing if schools would let us have cell phones in school, even just for emergencies.
What is an editorial/letter to the editor?
You are allowed to write notes during this playing in the Aural Comprehension paper.
What is the second playing?
This device shows why the bathtub in the story "The Bath" represented the larger theme of struggle and hardship.
What is symbolism?
A name used when someone wants to keep their identity concealed.
What is an alias/pseudonym?
This kind of news article may have a backstory on a community member or business and is written in a narrative form
What is a feature?
The kind of question featured below:
How does the author's language in the passage illustrate the struggle humanity has with bias?
What is writer's style?