Engilsh

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Where words close to each other begin with the same letter.

e.g. “Full fathom five thy father flies”

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Where words close to each other have the same vowel sounds in them.
e.g. “With dying light the silent fall of night”

Question 3

Colloquial Language

Answer 3

Language that people use in everyday speech.

e.g. “bloke” “dissing” “buff”

Question 4

Couplet

Answer 4

A pair of rhyming lines in a poem.
Sometimes called a “rhyming couplet”
e.g. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”

Question 5

Imagery

Answer 5

Poets often create ‘pictures’ which help the reader or listener to imagine
something clearly.
e.g. Metaphor, personification and simile are types
of imagery.

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

A metaphor describes something by saying it is something else.
e.g. A metaphor for the sea is:
“A monster chewing at the beach”

Question 7

Onomatopoeia

Answer 7

A word which sounds like
what it describes.
e.g. “whisper” “snip” “squelch” “bang”

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

When something that is not alive is written about as though it were alive.
e.g. “The wind whistled through the sails of the ship”
or
“The sun treads a path through the woods”