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20 Cards in this Set
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Connotation
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Your personal perception of a text/meaning etc.
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Denotation
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What you can clearly see/what a text actually is
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Hyperbole
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Over exaggeration
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Semantic field
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Words related to each other to create a certain tone/mood/atmosphere
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Sentence mood
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Interrogative/declarative/exclamatory
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Sentence type
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Simple/compound/complex
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Syntax
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Word order
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Similie
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Saying something is like something else
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Metaphor
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Saying something is literally something else when really it's not
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Personification
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Giving life to something that isn't alive
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Alliteration
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Repetition of same sounds or same kind of sounds at the beginning of a word
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that sound like a noise
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds, creates internal rhyming
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Consonance
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Repeated consonant sounds
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Colloquial language
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Casual or informal language eg. Hi
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Taboo language
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Swear words, inappropriate language for the situation
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Stichomythia
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Two or more characters are short eg. speaking/snappy/sharp
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Soliloquy
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Other characters cannot hear
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Monologue
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Audience and characters can hear
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Dialogue
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Speech (conversation)
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