Stylistic Features

2. Giving human traits to non-humans, such as animals.
5. The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of consecutive clauses or sentences
6. The use of descriptive words to create images in the reader’s mind based on the five senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste.
8. A symbolic narrative that represents meaning with a moral or political significance
9. Directly comparing two different things, usually with use of “as”, “like”, “if” or “than.”
10. A resemblance between one thing and another is declared by suggesting that one thing is another
11. The repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession.

1. The attributing of human characteristics to other animals, non-living things, objects,
3. Exaggeration to emphasise a particular idea
4. The use of any person, situation, or object to represent an idea of some sort.
5. Making reference to events, people, texts or times outside the world of the story.
7. Asserting something is the same – on some figurative level – as something else.
8. The repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or sentence