Language Techniques

Using your words to help the reader create a picture in their minds

• Imagery

• Sibilance

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

Comparing two things using like or as

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Anaphora

Comparing two things by saying one thing is the other thing

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Alliteration

Extreme exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Sibilance

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• Capitalism

• Repetition

• Socialism

• Symbolism

The same letter or sound at the beginning of words close together

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

The repeated use of an s or s sound (clue: creates an almost hissing sound)

• Personification

• Anaphora

• Sibilance

• Caesura

When the weather is used to reflect the mood or tone

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Pathetic fallacy

A word that sounds like what it is describing

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Sibilance

• Emotive language

Words and phrases are used more than once for impact

• Repetition

• Adjective

• Alliteration

• Assonance