Descriptive Techniques

When a character's mood is reflected in the atmosphere, weather or inanimate objects

e.g. A storm gathering may suggest that a character is angry.

• simile

• pathetic fallacy

• imagery

• personification

Using descriptive words, especially the 5 senses, to form a picture in the reader's mind

• simile

• imagery

• pathetic fallacy

• sibilance

Words that sound like the noise they are trying to describe.

• verb

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• pathetic fallacy

This is two or more words in a sentence beginning with the same letter or sound.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• imagery

• sibilance

What technique is in this sentence: Rows upon rows of trees stood patiently waiting for the rain.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Power of three

What techniques is in this sentence: Her smile grew and grew and grew until she couldn't smile anymore.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

What technique is in this sentence: Dragging her heavy feet behind her the girl could hear a melody of squelching and sloshing.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Power of three

• Repetition

What technique is in this sentence: A golden waterfall of hair trickled gently down her back.

• Power of three

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

What technique is in this sentence: The room was empty, bare and abandoned.

• Power of three

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What technique is in this sentence: His smile was like a crooked old chimney that hadn't been used in hundreds of years.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification