English Literary Techniques Table
Technique
Allegory
Allusion
Eye Dialect
Ellipsis
Emotive Language
Euphemism
Fractured/
truncated
sentences
Continuous Script
Humour
Hyperbole
Icons
Imagery
Imperative Voice
Intertextuality
Irony
Juxtaposition
Definition
Effect
Level of usage of
language
Slang, colloquial, informal or formal.
Linear/ non-linear
Metaphor
Modality
Onomatopoeia
Person
Personification
Repetition
Satire
Simile
Theme
First, second, or third. First person
refers to the speaker himself or a
group that includes the speaker (I,
me, we, and us). Second person refers
to the speaker’s audience (you). Third
person refers to everybody else (he,
him, she, her, it, they, James, mice).