Ways Into a Text

Contrast: the Technique That is Used Everywhere

Rhetoric and Narrative Voice

Metaphoricals: Similes, Metaphors, Symbols and Personification

Word Placements: Repetitions, Tricolons, Alliteration

Painting a Detailed Picture: Sensory Detail, Onomatopoeia, Emotive Language

Microstructural Techniques: Sentence Structures and Noticeable Punctuation

Macrostructural Techniques: Cyclical Structure, Start Of a Text, Order of Information

To Persuade: Hyperbole and Rhetorical Questions

Rare, but They’re Out There: Jargon, Wordplay and Colloquialisms

Wrapping it All Up