Engish Cover Flashcards by Frank Dodd | Brainscape

Q

Simile

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The girl ran as slow as a snail

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Metaphor

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His knife was so sharp it was a sharks tooth

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Personification

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The lightning danced across the sky

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Alliteration

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Shooting stars

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Onomatopoeia

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The obese man slipped and made a slap

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Pattern of three

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Ready, set, go!

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Language for emotive effect

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An innocent bystander suffered facial injuries when the thug launched his glass across the bar

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Rhetorical question

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How could i be so stupid

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Adjective

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He shouted loudly

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Verb

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I jumped over the fence

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Phrase

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Below the bridge

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Clause

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Because the movie was cancelled

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Simple sentence

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He ran

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Compound sentence

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My mum was cooking dinner so i came downstairs

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Complex sentence

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I broke my ankle, so i went to the hospital.

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Punctuation

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He went downstairs ( to the ground floor.)