Language Techniques

Using your words to help the reader create a picture in their minds

• Imagery

• Sibilance

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Comparing two things using like or as

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparing two things by saying one thing is the other thing

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Extreme exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Sibilance

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• Capitalism

• Repetition

• Socialism

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The same letter or sound at the beginning of words close together

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repeated use of an s or s sound (clue: creates an almost hissing sound)

• Personification

• Anaphora

• Sibilance

• Caesura

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When the weather is used to reflect the mood or tone

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Pathetic fallacy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A word that sounds like what it is describing

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Sibilance

• Emotive language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Words and phrases are used more than once for impact

• Repetition

• Adjective

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4