English Texts, Devices, Elements and Techniques (1 Viewer)

[bored of sc]

I am in a good mood so I am going to post up the longest list of english techniques and other things ever created.

Feel free to post up too and make the list more comprehensive!

Starting it off -

metaphor
simile
personification
allusion
multi-sensory imagery
imagery
first person narration
second person narration
third person narration
tautology
punctuation
repetition
characterisation
music (and its various techniques) - pitch, tone colour, dynamics, expressive techniques, duration, structure, texture
tone
dialogue
monologue
symbolism
motif
rhetorical question
question
command
statement
exclaimation
focal point
background
foreground
camera shot sizes
camera angles
clothing
setting (??)
jargon
colloquiallism
slang
analogy
pastiche (where elements of various other texts and different mediums are integrated into one)
primary source
secondary source
interview
humour
voice over
animation
cartoon imaging
satire
video-imaging
irony
rhyming couplet
special effects
delayed entrance
adjectives
verbs
nouns
pronouns
capitalisation
soliloquy
photograph
size
layout
pace
rhythm
rhyme
antithesis
juxtaposition
hyperbole
direct speech
accumulative detail
syntax - structure and types of sentences
conjunctions
persuasive language
emotive lang.
didactic lang.
propaganda
antecdote
homophone
homonym
asotrophe
cliche
onomatopoeia
adverbs
prepositions
synonyms
polar opposites
tragic flaw
tradegy
comedy
history
paradox
oxymoron
iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
foreshadowing
figurative lang.
conflict
climax
blank verse
anthropomorphism
allegory
character
theme
context
composer
responder
exemplify
represent
implies
explicit
connotative
poem
exposition
discussion
visual texts
description
facial expressions
body language


that's all i could think of and find on the net

actually - this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_terms has a hell of alot of terms so everything I just posted is irrelevant

:burn:









MORE TECHNIQUES, LANGUAGE FEATURES AND THE LIKE (I am sure I'll repeat myself so sorry)

ambiguity
appropriation
double entendre
consonance
metonymy
lexical chain
sub-text
atmosphere
bias
diction
euphemism
ideology
intertextuality
microcosm
narrative
plot
power
dominant readings
alternative readings
resistent readings
tenses
style
conflict and resolution
layout
visual codes
audio codes
written codes
symbolic codes
spoken language
objects (in visual texts)
direction (as above)
motion (as above)
paradox
oxymoron
assumptions
perspective
impression
message
morals
parody
values
motif
antithesis
audience
comparative adjective
superlative adjective
denouement (a conclusion)
denotation
ellipsis
eponym
eponymous hero
euphemism
flippancy
formal language
genre
imperative (form of verb)
informal language
non sequitor
persona
purpose
reflective language
register
rhetoric
sarcasm
stanza
syllogism
topic sentence
birds eye angle
dutch angle
worms eye angle

that is pretty much ALL I have researched and thought of

 

[x.Exhaust.x]

You forgot alliteration and assonance .

 

[bored of sc]

You forgot alliteration and assonance .

haha, yer

 

[michael1990]

why did you post all of them up?

And they are no help if no one knows what they mean?

lol

but still did you think of them all yourself?

 

[bored of sc]

why did you post all of them up?

And they are no help if no one knows what they mean?

lol

but still did you think of them all yourself?

to provide a starting point for people

if they want to know what a particular techniques means they can look it up themselves - this is merely a basis

and no, I thought of/knew alot of them myself but used prompts (in the sense I went to the internet) to get further techniques

 

[michael1990]

to provide a starting point for people

if they want to know what a particular techniques means they can look it up themselves - this is merely a basis

and no, I thought of/knew alot of them myself but used prompts (in the sense I went to the internet) to get further techniques

thats cool!

 

[Rhanoct]

EDIT: i cant read

very nice list

 

[Aerath]

These aren't mine, I got them from somewhere - can't remember. Those are all the ones I've ever heard of + others which I haven't heard of.

 

[russianROULETTE]

This is a good idea. I can think of a few more: authorial interpolation (where the composer tells you what to think of an incident/character), enjambment (poetry), vector, gaze, salience, proportion, blur, colour (for cartoons), contrast, descriptive language, metalanguage, mood/tone, title, anaphora...

 

[bored of sc]

i was told desriptive language isn't a technique - refer to the post on english assessment task to do with sally morgan's My Place

 

[bored of sc]

and oh, not all of these are techniques for obvious reasons (e.g. composer)

 

[Rhanoct]

Descriptive language is definitely a technique, though in most cases it's better to identify it as "X imagery".

You can add pathetic fallacy to the list too.

 

[bored of sc]

Descriptive language is definitely a technique, though in most cases it's better to identify it as "X imagery".

You can add pathetic fallacy to the list too.

really? it was the head of english of my school who told me it wasn't - but i think he was trying to get across that descriptive language (as you implied above) is a very general technique so its not the the best one to get you higher marks in a english response

p.s. is pathetic fallacy a joke implying I am an idiot for thinking descriptive language wasn't a technique

 

[The Kaiser]

Objective Correlative (Literary/Poetic), "a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion"

In other words using the symbols, enviroment and setting to give and explicit view of the emotions and relationships that give an view of a group or an individual in introspect.

T.S Eliot does it all the time

 

[Rhanoct]

Yeah, you're much better off identifying sophisticated and complex techniques as it impresses markers who see 'simile' and 'dialogue' all day.

 

[bored of sc]

Objective Correlative (Literary/Poetic), "a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion"

In other words using the symbols, enviroment and setting to give and explicit view of the emotions and relationships that give an view of a group or an individual in introspect.

T.S Eliot does it all the time

cool technique - will store that one in the memory bank thanks

 

[Sarah182]

Does soliloquy count? Like in Shakespeare?
Also I'm not sure if it was there but enjambment, which is run on lines in poetry.

 

[Aerath]

Ah - that's where I got it from.

 

[nikitadhami]

analogy
edifying
euphemisn
inversion
parallelism
anti-climax
antithesis
epigram
paradox


um i think thats abt it (including the ones already listed, i just wrote down the not so common ones, dont kno excactly wat was already written).....atleast for year 11





oh and um is edifying actually a technique???
i was and am still not sure.



im bored.

 

[kaz1]

i was told desriptive language isn't a technique - refer to the post on english assessment task to do with sally morgan's My Place

my teacher said to say adjectives instead