Describe a key relationship between two or more characters or individuals in the text.
Explain how this relationship helped you to understand at least one of these characters or individuals.
- Simile – A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description ore emphatic or vivd (e.g. as brave as a lion).
- Metaphor – a figure of speech in which a word or phase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- Alliteration – the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- Assonance – resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants, but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels.
- Personification – applying human characteristics to something non-human.
- Onomatopoeia – a word which imitates its actual sound. E.g. bang, zap, splash.
- Hyperbole – an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. E.g. “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”
- Imagery – visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
- Personal Pronouns –
- Statement –
- Irony –
- Euphemism –
- Cliché –
- Jargon – special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
- Proverb – a short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice. “Early to bed and early to rise.”
- Pseudonym – A fictitious name, commonly used by an author.
- Rhetorical Question – A question asked to make a point rather than ask a question. The answer is generally already known.
- Rhyme
- Tautology – the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style. “The two twins.”
- Satire – the use of comedy, humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
- Sarcasm – The use of irony to mock something.
- Pun – A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
- Oxymoron – Two contradictory terms appearing in conjunction. “Living death”, “Act naturally”.
- Neologism – A newly coined word or expression.
- Mnemonic – A system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something.
- Juxtaposition –
- Slang –
- Idiom –