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English language techniques

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english language techniques, explains teaches and gives evidence on some of the most important language devices. Also it shows you the different levels of punctuation followed by explaining what each of them mean and giving examples of how to apply them.

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English language techniques

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Examples:Alliteration: Miss Marble

Emotive language: The sleazy man hit on the innocent girl

Personification: The chair welcomed her with open arms

Repetition: Thank you for…Thank you for…Thank you for…

Onomatopoeia: Crash, bang, slap, tap, bing, boom

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PUNCTUATION…

LEVEL 1 . , ! ?

LEVEL 2 ’ : ” ()

LEVEL 3 ; - / *

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Level 1:

FULLSTOP = Used to end the sentence and allows the reader to take a long breath before starting the next one.

COMMA = Tells the reader that it is not the end of the sentence but they can take a breath if they need to. OR it can mean that the reader

can take a short breath when they occur in a list.

EXCLAMATION MARK = Does the same as a fullstop except it tells the reader that the previous sentence was exciting!

QUESTION MARK = When you are asking a question put a question mark to tell the reader that it is a question

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LEVEL 2:APOSTROPHE = INDICATES A THOUGHT OR DISMISSES A LETTER, FOR EXAMPLE IN I’M.

COLON = USED TO SHOW THERE IS A LIST OR A FOLLOWING STATEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE LIKE I HAVE

DONE AFTER LEVEL 2.

SPEECH MARKS = INDICATE WHERE SPEECH IS

BRACKETS = ADDS BONUS INFORMATION

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Level 3:

Semi colon = occurs in a more detailed list or adding bonus information to the end of a sentence similar to brackets or hyphens OR when an example is coming up.

Hyphen: Similar to a semi colon and brackets, adds additional information to a sentence.

Forward slash = To use 2 words that mean the same OR to give an opposite example. For example bright/sunny OR son/daughter.

Asterisk = Used to star sign your work, for example; the young girl * was sitting on the bench at the park. It was sunny that day, so she began to remove her coat

*The girl had long brown hair, which waved around in the wind.You can either fill in forgotten information which you wanted to use, or add bonus

information at the bottom of your page, which the reader can read through choice if they wanted to know something related to what you were talking about when you

put the *.

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These are just some of the existing language devices. All of these will help boost your

mark up that extra bit.