These are some of the strategies that you will employ when called upon to identify the different language strategies in various types pieces of writings.
1. Type of Language: Language may be spoken or written; informal or formal; personal or impersonal, standard or creole.
2. The Tone: sad, humorous, remorseful, satirical, objective, sarcastic, nostalgic, regretful or jubilant etc.
3. Sentence Construction: simple, compound, direct, complex, verbose etc.
4. Diction: Choice of vocabulary used- slang or formal, clichés, prosaic or florid, simple or stilted, use of coined words, repetition of key words and phrases etc.
5. Use of connotative or denotative words- eg emotive words used to arouse feelings, to suggest, to emphasize factual content, to state a point or words which seem to convey facts but are geared mainly at arousing emotions.
6. Significant use of punctuation marks and ellipsis
7. Lay-out of page: use of headlines, broad sheet layout, advertising-copy-layout, or verse layout.
8. Typographical features:- use of different font size, bold face print, capital letters, spacing, indentation, etc.
9. Use of literary devices- metaphor, personification, simile, irony, rhetorical questions, hyperbole, alliteration, sarcasm, onomatopoeia, etc.
10. Use of rhyme
11. Use of pictures and graphics
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