Hyperbole - Exaggeration for effect, Juxtaposition - Contrast, Personification - Giving human characteristics to something which is not human, Foreshadowing - Hint at what will happen in the story, Metaphor - Representing one thing as if it is something else, Symbolism - The use of images to represent deeper meanings, Simile - A comparison of two things, Imagery - Create a picture with words, Sensory detail - Using the senses to create a universal experience for the reader, Repetition - Using a word or technique more than once for effect, Alliteration - Repetition of the words beginning with the same letter in a sentence, Short sentences - 1 word or simple sentences used to speed up the pace of the writing. , Oxymoron - Words which are used next to each other but which are a contradiction, Dialogue - Speech in a text, Consonance - Similar sounding consonants in close proximity, Sibilance - Repetition of an S sound in a sentence or throughout an extract or text. , Complex sentences - Sentences with two or more ideas; a sentence with a main clause and at least one or more subordinate clause, Triplet - Making a list of three things to be persuasive, Anaphora - The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, Paradox - Self contradicting figure of speech which seems illogical or silly but has a truth in it, Tercet - Three line stanza, Trochee - One long stressed syllable followed by one short syllable, Iambic pentameter - Each line contains five feet and each foot is an Iamb,

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