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Topic : Required skills and knowledge - language features and techniques

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Chapter 1 : Alliteration, assonance, emotive language, colloquial, slang, jargon, neologism, cliché, rhetorical questions

Chapter 2 : Simile, metaphor, idioms, personification, extended metaphor

Figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, idioms and personification, is also known as imagery.
A simile connects two unlike subjects, often using 'like' or 'as' to compare the two.
A metaphor states that two unlike objects are the same or equal.
Idioms are common sayings that are figurative.
Personification gives objects or animals human qualities.
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that continues beyond one line.

Chapter 3 : Hyperbole, allusion, symbolism, synechdoche, metonomy

Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration.
Connotations imply a meaning beyond the literal.
An allusion is when a composer makes a reference to another text or person within their own text.
A symbol represents a theme or a person, generally as a very simple image.

Chapter 4 : Sarcasm and irony

Sarcasm involves a composer employing an insulting tone to communicate something that is the opposite of what is meant.
Verbal irony occurs when what is said is in contradiction to what is meant, it is used to emphasise a point rather than as an insult.
The humour arises because a responder is surprised by a link between images or ideas that seem unlikely or contradictory.
The humour arises because a responder is surprised by a link between images or ideas that seem unlikely or contradictory.
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
These are all examples of figurative language

Chapter 5 : Satire and parody

Satire is a technique that ridicules particular people or objects in order to point out problems in an attempt to instigate (bring about) change.
As a form of satire, parodies take an original text and alter it to make a new meaning.

Chapter 6 : Subversion, appropriation, intertextuality

Subversive readings change the conventions in texts.
Appropriations place characters and techniques into different contexts.
Intertextuality is the link between two or more texts.
Intertextuality can occur when a text is composed in a new format.
Intertextuality also occurs where the plot and the characters of a text are placed in a new context.
Intertextuality can consist of allusions, symbols and icons placed within texts.

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