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I will show you the different techniques used by journalists to make head lines stand out.
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I will show you the different techniques used by journalists to make head lines stand out. These are the most common techniques to make eye catching headlines; Cliché- is a phrase, often metaphorical, that has been used so often that it has lost its meaning e.g. 'people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'. Alliteration- is the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, e.g. "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences". Assonance- The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants e.g. 'tilting at windmills.' Colloquialism- is conversation language e.g. 'I went fishin yestaday'. Exclamation- are words that are used in upper-case and/or bold writing to show emotion or a way that word are said or even a loud noise. E.g. 'GET OUT, NOW!!' Hyperbole- is a...
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