Language Techniques

Emotive language is:

• Language aimed at the reader's feelings rather than their thinking
• Writing that includes emoticons
• A person's own view
• Exaggeration

A rhetorical question is:

• A question that does not require an answer
• A question which contains a command
• A person's own view
• A question which always comes at the end of an article

An imperative is:

• A member of the Russian royal family
• A command or an instruction
• A fact which is exaggerated
• A technique used by writers to introduce a topic

Hyperbole is:

• A type of verb
• When you become over-active
  
• Exaggeration
• Words that create pictures in the mind

Alliteration is when:

• There is a list of three
• There is a series of vowels which sound the same
• A series of words begins with the same letter
• A person describes their true feelings

A simile

• Encourages you to feel happy
• Indicates a break in a line
• Is a word that contains the sound it describes
• A comparison of one thing to another using 'like' or 'as.'

Repetition

• An idea, word, phrase, theme or concept appearing again and again
• A list of three
• A play on words
• The titles in a series of books by the same author

Personification

• When a writer pushes his own view
• When the weather reflects the mood in a piece of writing
• When an inanimate object is given human qualities
• When a character's name appears in the title

Pun

• A play on words eg 'Patch stretched and thought to himself 'it's a dog's life'
• Words that create pictures in the mind
• A personal viewpoint
• Comparing one thing to another by saying it is that thing

Imagery

• The illustrations in a book
• Language which relies on the reader having a strong imagination
• Combining science and literature
• Words that create pictures in the mind