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- 2. The state of being able to feel the emotions of another. Being able to connect with the spirit of another individual or group.
- 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.
- 6. Three dots (full stops) placed together which can signify:
- 8. The highest point of interest in a story.
- 12. Placing things close together or side by side so they will be compared.
- 13. The technical language of a particular field or group of people. E.g. Computer language- floppy disc, hard drive, RAM.
- 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.
- 19. Language
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 32. TECHNIQUE GLOSSARY
- 33. Combing two words or phrases that are opposite or contradictory, e.g. A hateful love.
- 34. Feature The location within a visual text to which our sight is instantly drawn/ The most important or noticeable feature on an image.
- 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"
- 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?
- 39. of Language/Register
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- 1. The direction of the sight-lines which the eyes are drawn to follow.
- 4. Where more than one person is speaking, usually in the form of direct or indirect speech (novels) or a script (plays).
- 5. Very informal language and not acceptable in all situations. E.g. “G’day mate, see ya.”
- 7. A distinctive, easily remembered phrase, used to advertise a product.
- 9. Pictures or images evoked in the mind through the use of words. Metaphors, similes, personification and symbolism can create imagery.
- 10. A short and interesting narrative of an event, usually having happened to the person telling the story.
- 11. Type, kind or group.
- 14. Language Language that appeals to the emotions, and is designed to make an audience respond emotionally.
- 16. Language Language that indicates an attitude to, or feeling about, the topic.
- 17. Stanzas are groups of lines of verse arranged and repeated in fixed form for a poem. They are like paragraphs for poems.
- 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.
- 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.
- 21. that does not show any attitude or feeling. It is focussed on facts and information only. E.g. a news report.
- 22. Saying one thing but actually meaning the exact opposite. E.g. “That was clever” when someone does something silly.
- 23. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like the action they represent. E.g. Over the cobbles e clattered and clashed.
- 25. Repetition is the use of words or sounds more than once
- 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.
- 27. or more words have been left out • pause
- 29. A play on words
- 31. A standardised idea or concept, especially about people or groups of people, e.g. dumb blonde, suburban housewife, surfie chick, footballer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 38. The writer’s attitude to their subject matter or audience.