6th September 2019

Essay Prep

  • Language Features:
  • Simile – comparing something to something else – I ran like a monkey
  • Metaphor – saying what something is – I am a pussy
  • Alliteration – Rough rooftop
  • Assonance – resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels – The crumbling thunder of seas
  • Personification – Making something seem human or making – The old oak yawned as the day begun
  • Onomatopoeia – the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named – BOOM, POW, SMASH, BONG.
  • Hyperbole – exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally –
  • Imagery –
  • Personal Pronouns
  • Statement
  • Irany
  • Euphemism
  • ClichĂ©
  • Jargon
  • Proverb
  • Pseudonym
  • Rhetorical Question
  • Rhyme
  • Tautology
  • Satire
  • Sarcasm
  • Pun
  • Oxymoron
  • Neologism
  • Mnemonic
  • Juxtaposition
  • Slang
  • Idiom – break a leg


Describe: a character or individual that you disliked OR admired in the text.

Explain: how you feel towards this character helped you understand the text as a whole, supporting your points with visual and/or oral language features.

Describe at least one important place in the text.

Explain how that place helped you understand an important message in the text, spporting your points with visual and/or oral langue eatures

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