Béarla GCSE Devices

A joke that you make by using a word that has two meanings.

Command or demand language – telling someone to do something.

Asking a question where you are not expecting an answer. Asking a question where you already know the answer or the answer is obvious.

Giving human abilities to a non-human object or animal.

Three words after each other that are somehow related to each other.

When you compare two things using the words ‘LIKE’ or ‘AS’.

Asking a question and answering it right away.

When there is a really good description of something that helps you picture it in your head.

Words that spelt how they sound.

Combining contradictory traits, e.g. living dead; terribly good

When you say one thing IS something else.

Two or more words in a row in a sentence that start with the same letter.

Interrupting a sentence by inserting extra information enclosed in brackets, commas, or dashes.

Repeating the same word or phrase throughout a piece of text.

Language used to get a specific emotional response from the reader e.g. anger, guilt, sadness.

Expressing emotions in your voice. Expressing emotions in your writing using vocabulary choices.

Describing a natural thing like the weather or the sea, as if it is feeling the emotion expressed by the poet/characters.

Exaggerating language. Over the top language that is used to be dramatic.