English Language Techniques

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

Give an inanimate object a human feeling or characteristics

Eg - The tree danced happily in the breeze

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

Eg - Sound. Shock. Silence.

Question 3

Onomatopeia

Answer 3

Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

Eg - the door screeched as the boy left the house

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

A sentence or phrase that uses like or is to compare one thing to something else

Eg - My skin was burning like the roast chicken I had last night

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

To compare something to something else in an indirect way

Eg - Pain is my best friend

Question 6

Sibilance

Answer 6

Repeating the same sound in a sentence or section of text

Eg - ‘hush’ said the big who was sweeping with his brush

Question 7

Rhetorical question

Answer 7

Asking a question that is not meant to be answered

Eg - Do you really care?

Question 8

Colloquial language

Answer 8

Informal language

Eg - Last night he came round my gaf

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggeration

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Anything that creates an image in someones head

Question 11

Noun

Answer 11

A word used to identify any class of people, place, or things

Question 12

Verb

Answer 12

A doing or being word

Eg - I jumped across the bridge

Question 13

Adjective

Answer 13

A word that describes the noun

Question 14

Adverb

Answer 14

A word that describes the verb

Question 15

Repition

Answer 15

Repeating a word or phrase

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

When two completely opposite things are put close to each other

Question 17

Pronoun

Answer 17

A word that can replace a name

Question 18

Abstract noun

Answer 18

A noun that shows ideas, concepts or qualities

Question 19

Proper noun

Answer 19

It is a specific name for a thing

Question 20

Collective noun

Answer 20

A collection of things taken as a whole

Question 21

Assonance

Answer 21

Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words

Question 22

Dialect

Answer 22

A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region

Question 23

Dialogue

Answer 23

A conversation between two people

Question 24

Dissonance

Answer 24

The use of impolite, harsh-sounding and unusual words

Question 25

Enjambent

Answer 25

In poetry, enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.

Question 26

Irony

Answer 26

the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Question 27

Monologue

Answer 27

a monologue is a speech presented by a single character