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SIGHT

Is the composer trying to appeal to the visual sense of the responder?

Are they using visual techniques:

Adjectives? Describing words.
Similes? Indirect comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Metaphors? Direct comparison using ‘is’ or ‘are’.
Personification? Inanimate given human aspects

LANGUAGE

Is the text written in first person (emotional, personal, intimate, biased, subjective) or third person (detached, objective, omniscient)?

What is the level of language?

JARGON - - - SLANG INFORMAL/COLLOQUIAL
/CONVERSATIONAL

FORMAL/SOPHISTICATED

IMAGERY

Is the composer trying to create imagery by appealing to the senses of the responder?

Sight (visual), Sound (aural), Smell (olfactory), Taste (oral), Touch (tactile).

Imagery is used to engage us, to create an image in our minds through the power of language.

MOVEMENT

Movement can be created through:

Rhythm, Rhyme and Repetition – tools used to create a flowing effect or to emphasise an image or idea. This makes the text more accessible and easier to read/understand.

Sentence structure – long=slow and short=fast.

SOUND

Is the composer trying to appeal to the aural sense of the responder?

Alliteration? First letter of each word repeated.

Assonance? Middle sound of words repeated.

Onomatopoeia? The action mimics the sound it makes.