The complete bank of figurative language, sound devices, rhetorical appeals and visual techniques — definitions, examples, uses, and the sentence formulas that turn technique-spotting into Band 6 analysis. Includes 10 lessons, worksheets, samples and marking criteria.
80+ techniques organised by family (figurative, sound, structural, persuasive, visual), each with definition, example, effect vocabulary, and a ready-to-adapt Band 6 analysis sentence.
Open the Guide →Ten lessons moving from identification to sophisticated effect analysis to exam-speed writing under unseen conditions.
Open the Lessons →All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.— William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II Scene vii (c. 160) — an extended metaphor that organises an entire speech.