Language Features

When an author gives subtle hints or warnings about future events to create suspense and increase reader/viewer engagement with the text.

• Foreshadowing

• Satire

• Voice

Irony involves...

• Contrasting between expectations and reality.

• A recurring theme, symbol, image or concept that surfaces multiple times throughout a narrative.

Dramatic irony is

• A character saying something while meaning the opposite

• when the audience knows something the characters don't

Uses simple objects, actions or concepts to represent deeper meanings beyond their literal interpretation.

• Symbolism

• Allegory

• Allusion

A motif is

• A recurring theme, symbol, image or concept that surfaces multiple times throughout a narrative.

• The placement of two or more contrasting elements (characters, settings, themes) side by side.

The placement of two or more contrasting elements (characters, settings, themes) side by side.

• Dramatic irony

• Characterisation

• Juxtaposition

Why would juxtaposition likely be used?

• Highlight their differences and create an effect that draws attention to the contrast

• To tie together different elements in the text

A narrative in which characters, settings, and events symbolically represent abstract ideas and deeper meanings.

• Allegory

• Mystery novel

• Science fiction

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other or next to each other.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Whereas personification is figurative, this device is more literal. Nonhuman entities (such as animals and gods) or objects talk, think, and behave like humans

• Anthropomorphism

• Imagery