cats or dogs devices

Rhetorical question

• Just a question

• Same as interrogative

• Question that has an obvious answer

• A command

Facts

• Has to have a number in

• Can be proven

• Can't be proven

• A statement

Embedded clause

• Extra information, using commas, in the middle of a clause

• Extra information, using commas, at the end of a sentence

• Extra information, using commas, at the start of a sentence

• Hyperbole

Situational Irony

• A heavy metal clothes flattener

• Repeated vowel sounds

• Standing on your head

• Something that seems incongruous (strange but somehow 'just typical') e.g. The fire station burns down while the firemen are out on a call.

Dashes (-)

• A handsome man

• Used to indicate another thought briefly popping into the writer's mind

• Used to start a list

• Used like an ellipsis

Short sentences

• Can be used to make something sound certain/dramatic

• The space between a capital letter and a comma

• A statement

• Always contains just one word

A colon (:)

• Used between items in a list

• Joins two related independent clauses

• Used to introduce anticipated information, or for a dramatic pause

• Used to indicate when words are missing

Antithesis

• Two contrasting words next to each other

• A sentence with two contrasting sides to it

• A sentence with lots of commas

• A sentence with a connective joining two independent clauses

Ambitious vocabulary

• Using dramatic words

• Using a lot of words

• Using impressive words

• Using words

Emotive language

• Always makes you sad

• Makes the reader feel some emotion

• Lists of adjectives

• The same as visual imagery