Language techniques

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Across
  1. 2. The state of being able to feel the emotions of another. Being able to connect with the spirit of another individual or group.
  2. 3. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letter or sound in two or more words that are close together. E.g. The bees were busily buzzing, Hounds howling.
  3. 6. Three dots (full stops) placed together which can signify:
  4. 8. The highest point of interest in a story.
  5. 12. Placing things close together or side by side so they will be compared.
  6. 13. The technical language of a particular field or group of people. E.g. Computer language- floppy disc, hard drive, RAM.
  7. 15. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) in words that are close together. E.g. I lie here and cry my eyes like fires burning high.
  8. 19. Language
  9. 24. Personification is to give an inanimate (non-human) object human qualities. E.g. The stars watched over the earth, The dam wall, tired of holding back the water, crumpled.
  10. 28. Huge or extreme exaggeration. Exaggeration in everyday speech. E.g. I’ve seen that movie a thousand times, The fever made her forehead burning hot.
  11. 30. Writing/texts that attempt to convince their audience to agree with a particular idea, or to buy something. Methods include humour, emotive language, bias, statistics, carefully selected facts and appealing to the self-interest of the audience.
  12. 32. TECHNIQUE GLOSSARY
  13. 33. Combing two words or phrases that are opposite or contradictory, e.g. A hateful love.
  14. 34. Feature The location within a visual text to which our sight is instantly drawn/ The most important or noticeable feature on an image.
  15. 36. A simile is used to show the similarity between two things and always uses the words "like" or "as". E.g. Sadness falls inside me like cold rain; I wandered lonely as a cloud"
  16. 37. Question A rhetorical question is one asked by the person who created the text but without expectation of an answer. E.g. Who do you think you are?
  17. 39. of Language/Register
Down
  1. 1. The direction of the sight-lines which the eyes are drawn to follow.
  2. 4. Where more than one person is speaking, usually in the form of direct or indirect speech (novels) or a script (plays).
  3. 5. Very informal language and not acceptable in all situations. E.g. “G’day mate, see ya.”
  4. 7. A distinctive, easily remembered phrase, used to advertise a product.
  5. 9. Pictures or images evoked in the mind through the use of words. Metaphors, similes, personification and symbolism can create imagery.
  6. 10. A short and interesting narrative of an event, usually having happened to the person telling the story.
  7. 11. Type, kind or group.
  8. 14. Language Language that appeals to the emotions, and is designed to make an audience respond emotionally.
  9. 16. Language Language that indicates an attitude to, or feeling about, the topic.
  10. 17. Stanzas are groups of lines of verse arranged and repeated in fixed form for a poem. They are like paragraphs for poems.
  11. 18. A metaphor states that one thing IS or WAS something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as. E.g. The road was a ribbon of moonlight, The wind is the howling of a dying wolf.
  12. 20. What is happening in the world in which a text is composed. The background and total setting of a text or the background of the reader. The social, historical and cultural factors that influence a text.
  13. 21. that does not show any attitude or feeling. It is focussed on facts and information only. E.g. a news report.
  14. 22. Saying one thing but actually meaning the exact opposite. E.g. “That was clever” when someone does something silly.
  15. 23. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like the action they represent. E.g. Over the cobbles e clattered and clashed.
  16. 25. Repetition is the use of words or sounds more than once
  17. 26. that describe tone can include;, formal, conversational, sincere, bitter, tense, aggressive, sharp, brutal, hopeful, light, anxious, mysterious, unnatural, concerned, excited, fearful, horrified, sarcastic, ironic, humorous.
  18. 27. or more words have been left out • pause
  19. 29. A play on words
  20. 31. A standardised idea or concept, especially about people or groups of people, e.g. dumb blonde, suburban housewife, surfie chick, footballer.
  21. 34. A symbol is a particular object or image which represents an idea or a number of ideas. E.g. Red can symbolise love, passion, blood, etc.
  22. 35. A phrase that has been used so often that it has lost all meaning. E.g. Once upon a time, love at first sight, too good to be true, more than meets the eye, believe it or not, from the bottom of my heart, larger than life.
  23. 38. The writer’s attitude to their subject matter or audience.