SASS EL P2 Language Features

SASS Comprehension – Language Features Sec 4/5 1 INTENSIVE REVISION: Language Features 1. Imperative: This feature is mostly found in advertisements. Imperative is a command or an instruction. It forces the reader to take action for instance 'Donate in a charity appeal to help starving children'. But then again, it can also be persuasive at the same time, by making the reader feel guilty too. 2. Simile: A comparison of one thing to another using words 'like' or 'as'. For example, "The raindrops fell like tears". Again, similes are used to also create an imaginative thought of what is being described. 3. Figure of speech: This is an expression that should not be taken seriously. For example, 'pigs might fly', meaning not that there is pigs flying past your window but that something is probably untrue. So it might be used to create a comedic effect. 4. Imagery: When words are so descriptive they allow the reader to paint an image in their minds. Imagery is used to allow the reader to imagine the moment/scene being described. 5. Symbolism: When an object is used to represent something important. (When people see a heart, they immediately think of love right? So that heart has a meaning behind it.) 6. Facts A fact is a piece of information that can be demonstrated or proven to be true. - Facts are used to demonstrate or emphasise a writer's point by providing evidence to support claims - For example, 'As well as nicotine, each cigarette contains more than 4,000 different chemicals, many of which are harmful to the body'. 7. Opinions An opinion is an individual's own thoughts or beliefs - Like facts opinions emphasise the point of a writer but make the message more personal rather than completely factual - For example, 'Smoking is an awful habit and anyone who smokes stinks'. 8. Statistics A statistic is numerical data - Numerical data can be used like facts to emphasise and demonstrate the point of the writer - For example, '1 in 4 people' or '50% chance of rain' 9. Rhetorical questions A question that does not require an answer - Rhetorical questions are used to engage and involve the reader by making them think. These are typically used to make a text more persuasive. - For example, 'How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?' (Bob Dylan)

SASS Comprehension – Language Features Sec 4/5 2 10. Emotive language Emotive language is designed to make the reader feel something and have an emotional response to the text. -This helps involve the reader and keeps them interested in reading on. - For example, 'A distressing and harrowing example of cruelty' 11. List of three Three words or reasons put together in a list - This technique helps emphasise the point of the text and involves the reader by giving a variation in sentence structures - For example, 'This is a great, adaptable and fun language device'. 12. Metaphor A figure of speech in which an expressio