Language Techniques

What is a simile?

• A technique that names a person or thing as something else

• A technique to compare one thing to another using 'like' or 'as'

• A metaphor giving human feelings to an object

• Words that sound the same as they are written

What is a metaphor?

• A technique that names a person thing or action as something else

• A phrase that combines to opposing ideas

• Language that is intended to create an emotional response

• Obvious exaggeration to create an effect

What is a hyperbole?

• A metaphor giving human feelings to an object

• Words that sound the same as they are written

• Obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect

• a technique that compares one thing with another using 'like' or 'as'

What is personification?

• Combining two or more opposing phrases

• A metaphor giving human feelings to an object

• Language that tries to create an emotional response

• When emotions are given to a setting, object or weather

What is pathetic fallacy?

• A metaphor giving human feelings to an object

• Obvious exaggeration

• Comparing one thing with another using 'like' or 'as'

• Where emotions are given to a setting, object or weather

What is onomatopoeia?

• Language intended to create an emotional response

• Words that sound the same as they are written

• A technique that names a person, thing or action as something else

• Obvious exaggeration for effect

What is an oxymoron?

• A phrase combining two or more opposing phrases

• A technique that compares one thing with another using 'like' or 'as'

• Words that sound the same as they are written

• Where emotions are given to a setting, object or weather

What is emotive language?

• Use of obvious exaggeration

• Giving human feelings to an object

• Language intended to create an emotional response

• Comparing one thing to another using 'like' or 'as'

What technique is used here: "The trees stood as tall as towers"?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Pathetic Fallacy

What technique is used here: "The circus was a magnet for the children"?

• Metaphor

• Pathetic fallacy

• Oxymoron

• Simile