Feature Articles

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Alliteration

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Repeated sounds

Catches our attention, Highlights the writer's point and emphasises it

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Allusion

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Reference to event

Adds weight to an argument

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Analogy

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Comparing situations

Simplifies issue and highlights similarities

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Anecdote

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Personal story

Engages reader through relation

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Assocance

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Same vowel repeating

Emphasises phrases in a variety of ways

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Balanced sentences

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First and second half of sentence is structure the same

Contrasts two equal and parallel ideas against each other

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Case study

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Analysis of a particular case

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Cliches

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Overused expressions

makes you feel more comfortable with the ideas through presentation of widely accepted form

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Comparisons

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Comparing similar things or contrasts

Influences us to agree with or condemn certain proposals and actions

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Connotations

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Associations or implied meanings of words

Positions the reader to like/dislike a person, group, idea or viewpoint

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Direct Address

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Speaking directly to the reader using the word 'you'

Makes the audience feel involved

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Ethos

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Establish of authority

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Evidence

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Facts, information or experts

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Facts

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Things that can be proven

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Famous examples

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Examples readers will recognise

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Generalisation

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If something is true its true for everything else

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Humour

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Engages the audience, establishes a tone/attitude

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Hyperbole/Overstatement/Exaggeration

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Using dramatic, over the top language to make things sound better

Arouses emotion in the reader

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Imperative

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Order of commands

Encourages the reader to pay attention

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Inclusive language

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Involves the reader directly

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Listing

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Gives many successful readings

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Logos

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Appeal to reasoning

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Metaphor

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compares one thing to another

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like their noises

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Opinions

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Ideas that are believable

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Parallel sentence structures

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Highlight the importance of one idea by contrasting it against another idea, less satisfying

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Pathos

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Appeal to emotion

Emotional response from readers

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Pattern of three

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using three adjectives

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to non human objects

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Pun

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A play on words that give one word or phrase multiple meanings

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Reason and logic

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considers opposing viewpoint and argue against them

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Repetition

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Repeating of words

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Rhetorical Questions

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A question that requires no answer because the answer is applied

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Sentence length

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Juxtaposes long sentences against shorter once to show changes or differences

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Similes

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Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

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Worst case scenario

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Setting out a what if to the audience to utilise fear or anntisipation