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For a list of some presentational devices, click here.
For a list of some linguistic devices, click here.
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Presentational Devices
- Bold print
- Emphasis
- Font size
- Strap-lines
- Pictures/Photographs
- Bullet points
- Captions
- Logo
- Angle
- Position of writing
- Graphs
- Tables
- Line drawings
Structural Devices
- Headlines (Heading/title at the top of an article or page)
- Subheadings (Heading of a subsection of a piece of text)
- Connectives (Used to connect words/phrases (e.g. and, or, as))
- Paragraphs
- Topic sentences
- Discourse features
Linguistic Devices
- (In)formal register (Formality of the language used)
- Metaphors (A thing regarded symbolic of something else)
- Similes (Figure of speech – comparison of one thing with another)
- Personification (Attributing non-human items with human characteristics)
- Repetition (Repeating something that has already been said or written)
- Groups of three (Repeating something three times for effect)
- Modifiers (An adjective or noun used attributively)
- Emotive Language (Expressing feelings)
- Imperatives (Giving an authoritative commands)
- Modal Verbs (Must, should, could, can)
- Rhetorical Questions (Asked to produce an effect/make a statement – not intended to be answered)
- Hyperbole (Exaggeration – statements to not be taken literally)
- Alliteration (Using the same letter at the start of two connected words. E.g. Awesome Alliteration)