2024 T4 Language Features

Visually descriptive language used to create a vivid image in the reader's mind.

• Metaphor

• imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbolism

Applying human attributes to inanimate (non-living) things.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Direct characterisation

When someone/something is comparatively described by referring to it as something it is not.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Indirect characterisation

When someone/something is described by comparing it to attributes of something else using the terms “like” or “as”.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Direct characterisation

• Imagery

Words or short phrases that sounds like the sound it is describing.

• Symbolism

• Indirect characterisation

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Significantly exaggerating a statement.

• Direct characterisation

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

Utilising objects (often recurring) to represent an idea.

• Indirect characterisation

• Personification

• Symbolism

• Simile

The narrator explicitly tells the reader what the character is like.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Direct characterisation

The author gives information about a character and allows the reader to draw their own conclusions about them.

• Indirect characterisation

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole