Language Techniques

A direct comparison

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Caesura

A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Semantic Field

• Simile

Giving an object human characteristics

• Juxtaposition

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Enjambment

Descriptive language that creates an image in the reader's mind

• Adjective

• Verb

• Dramatic Monologue

• Imagery

A pause in the middle of a line of poetry

• Caesura

• Plosive sounds

• Personification

• Juxteposition

A line of poetry that runs onto the next

• Repetition

• Sibilance

• Enjambment

• Noun

Two opposite words places next to or near each other

• Adjective

• Juxtaposition

• Rhetorical Question

• Tripartite List

Over exaggeration

• Plosive sounds

• Semantic Field

• Verb

• Hyperbole

Describing word

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Extended Metaphor

Action word

• Repetition

• Adjective

• Noun

• Verb