Language Devices and Techniques PDF
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This document provides definitions and examples of various literary devices and techniques, including similes, metaphors, and personification. The document shows examples of how to use each technique in a sentence, making the concept easier to understand.
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Figurative Language How it’s used Example Simile To compare two things using Her smile was as bright as the ‘like’/’as’ sun! Metaphor To compare two things Jacob was the black sheep of his...
Figurative Language How it’s used Example Simile To compare two things using Her smile was as bright as the ‘like’/’as’ sun! Metaphor To compare two things Jacob was the black sheep of his without using ‘like’/’as’ family. Personification To give human-like qualities The colourful flowers danced in to inanimate objects the wind. Repetition To repeat the same word/ The girl had piercing eyes. Her phrase to emphasise an idea eyes. Her eyes were as dark as the night sky. Hyperbole To exaggerate an emotion/ The nurses gave their 200% to idea save the patient. Onomatopoeia To imitate the sound it is “Crunch,” went the leaves as he describing stepped on them. Imagery To describe something using Her mouth watered as she bit into the 5 senses the savoury peppery omelette. Language techniques How it’s used Example Ellipsis (...) To add a pause in reading to He strained his eyes to focus in create tension/ the effect of the dark…only to come face to thoughts trailing off face with a disfigured face. Foreshadowing To hint that something bad is Calvin reminded Dora of about to happen something she couldn’t place a finger on. (a turkey- he would later be fed to the people in the hole as an offering) Rule of three Listing 3 adjectives or The cross-country run is painful, actions consecutively to pointless, and pure evil. emphasise something. The sound was so sudden and strange that the girl had to stop, look, and listen.
