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Language Techniques

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  • Q1
    What is an anecdote?
    Personal experience used to support or illustrate a point.
    30s
  • Q2
    What is alliteration?
    The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words.
    30s
  • Q3
    What is emotive language?
    Language used to make the audience feel certain emotions.
    30s
  • Q4
    What is a simile?
    A comparison using the words like or as, e.g. As addictive as chocolate.
    30s
  • Q5
    What is inclusive language?
    Language used to make the audience feel included.
    30s
  • Q6
    What is a rapport?
    Writers try to create a rapport, or connection, between themselves and their audiences.
    30s
  • Q7
    What is a metaphor?
    A comparison in which two things are said to be the same.
    30s
  • Q8
    What is repetition?
    The repeating of words for effect.
    30s
  • Q9
    What is a rhetorical question?
    A question which is designed to make the audience think.
    30s
  • Q10
    What is personification?
    An item which is personified is normally inanimate but has been given living qualities.
    30s
  • Q11
    What is imagery?
    The creation of an image in the mind of the audience. Can draw on all five senses.
    30s
  • Q12
    What are quotations?
    Words taken from a text and used within another by using them inside quotation marks.
    30s

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