Language Techniques

Comparing two things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Imagery

Comparing things by saying it literally is something else.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Short sentence

• Contrast

When 2 or more words next to each other start with the same sound.

• Imagery

• Rhetorical Question

• Alliteration

• Short sentence

A list of three things in a sentence.

• Power of 3

• Short sentence

• Metaphor

• Simile

When the same word or phrase is written over and over again.

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Personification

• Rhetorical question

This technique asks something that does not need an answer.

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Rhetorical question

A sentence that only has a few words in it.

• Short sentence

• Repetition

• Imagery

• Metaphor

Giving something that is not human, human qualities.

• Contrast

• Rhetorical question

• Alliteration

• Personification

Lots of items separated by commas.

• Short sentence

• List

• Simile

• Repetition

Description of sight, sound, taste, smell and touch.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• 5 senses

• Metaphor