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Alliteration
The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Allusion
An indirect symbolic reference to something, usually a literary or historical person, place or event.
Allegory
Texts with a hidden meaning/moral (form of an extended metaphor).
Amplification
Repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it.
Anaphora
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the start of sentences.
Anastrophe
The syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed in the sentence.
Anecdote
A short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh.
Archaism
Use of words and expressions that have become obsolete in the common speech of an era.
Assonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowels in a sequence of nearby words.
Antithesis
When two opposites are introduced in the same sentence. It is the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in a balanced way.
Asyndeton
One or several conjunctions are omitted from a series of related clauses.
Bathos
A sense of anticlimax so that the subject appears comical or ridiculous.
Cacophony
Language that strikes the ear as harsh, rough and unmusical.
Catharsis
Emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress.
Chiasmus
A rhetorical or literary figure in which words or grammatical constructions are repeated in inverted order, in the same or a modified form.
Cliche
An expression or action so frequently used that it has become hackneyed or cloying.
Colloquialism
The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.
Emotive Language
The use of language that derives or evokes emotions in the audience/reader.
Euphemism
An inoffensive expression used in place of a blunt one that is felt to be disagreeable or embarrassing.
Euphony
Language which strikes the ear as smooth, pleasant and musical.
Idiom
A phrase that has a figurative meaning to it which can be frequently spoken in day to day conversations.
Laconic
Using very few words.
List of Three
The use of 3 nouns listed out. It is often used to carry out an important message, and can be summarised.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something in order to suggest a similarity.
Modals
Verbs used to express obligation, ability, possibility.
Paradox
A statement which seems on its face to be logically contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to be interpretative in a way that makes good sense.
Parallelism
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.
Prosody
The patterns of rhythm and sound in literature such as alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.
Personal Pronoun
The grammatical use of words to address other people.
Portmanteau
When two or more words are joined together to coin a new word, but always refers to a single concept.
Pun
A play on words exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
Satire
A literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards it attitudes of amusement.
Synthetic Personalisation
Addressing mass audiences as though they were individuals through inclusive language.
Statistics
Numerical or graphical information or data.
Tone
The attitudes being expressed toward the subject and implied toward the audience in a literary work.
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