Language Techniques

This is where the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

This is where a human quality is attributed to a thing or idea.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Dialogue

• Personification

This is where a word or phrase is repeated to achieve a particular effect.

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

• Alliteration

A group of nouns, adjectives, or verbs

• Alliteration

• Rule of three

• Metaphor

• Personification

Words that imitate the sound when spoken

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Metaphor

Evoking a reasoning response from the reader by asking a question that doesn’t require an answer

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Rhetorical question

The words used to give orders, commands, warnings or instruction.

• Dialogue

• Personification

• Imperatives

• Emotive language

An exaggeration used to persuade the reader or emphasise a point.

• Hyperbole

• Rhetorical question

• Personification

• Rule of three

When the writer writes as if he addressing the reader personally.

• Personification

• Direct address

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Opinions or statements which are not neutral, and often not supported by evidence.

• Slogan

• Idioms

• Bias

• Alliteration