What is a technique in a text, how to i find them and what to write about them (1 Viewer)

[salliann]

Please help, i have no idea how to find techniques within texts and our english teacher is always marking us down for not having them in our essay..etc. Yet, she hasn't actually explained what techniques even are, let alone how to find them and what it is we need to write about them. Currently we are doing a comparative study between Pride & Pred and Letters to Alice.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[snowflakeptical]

a technique is what the composer uses to express meaning and depends on the form of the text too
so these include similes, alliteration, hyperbole, personification, visual imagery and many more
film techniques: panning, zoom in, mise-en-scene,etc
static images: composition, salience, foreground, background, etc

to find them, you need to know the techniques that exist and those in the specific form (text type)
website to help: http://literary-devices.com/

when talking about them: write down the example (quote), list the technique(s) then explain it; talk about what the technique does and then the effect it has on the audience
remember a good example/ quote/ evidence has multiple techniques

 

[DepressedPenguino]

If you understand the definition of a technique (e.g. metaphor, simile, exaggeration, personification, motif, symbolism or even first person narration) then you should be able to identify it. However, sometimes you need to understand a character, the environment or storylinr to identify more intricate techniques like metaphors and allegory.

 

[Absolutezero]

Techniques are basically descriptions of how language is being used.

You can find a huge list of them here:

http://community.boredofstudies.org/4/english/327855/complete-literary-technique-list.html

 

[egress]

Here are some techniques in your post.

Please help,

Technique: pleading tone, invites people to want to help you

i have no idea how to find techniques within texts and our english teacher is always marking us down for not having them in our essay..etc.

"no idea" = idiom, hyperbole(?)
despondent tone

Yet, she hasn't actually explained what techniques even are, let alone how to find them and what it is we need to write about them.

Italicisation for emphasis.

Currently we are doing a comparative study between Pride & Pred and Letters to Alice.

Can't find anything here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Can talk more about tone.