Language Technique
A doing word.
Verb.
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A word describing how something is done.
Adverb
A describing word. Sometimes there are three together to make it more effective.
Adjective
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a style or category of art, music, or literature.
Genre
Using descriptive words (adjectives) to describe something and paint a picture in your head
Imagery
Something that is similar, it is 'like' or 'as' something else.
We use 'like' or 'as' to describe it
Simile
These are questions where you are not expected to answer
When something non-human or even something that is not alive; is doing something only humans can do.
Personification
This is the repetition of letter sounds at the start of the word
Alliteration
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this is when something is 'said' to be something else
Metaphor
This is when adjectives or adverbs are used that relate to or refer to emotions.
Emotive Language
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The 6 events that make up a story's plot
–Orientation
–Complication
–Rising Action
–Climax
–Falling Action
–Resolution
This is a word that imitates or sounds like the sound that it describes
onomatopoeia
the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.
Direct Characterisation
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the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.
Indirect Characterisation