English Language Techniques

Question 1

Noun?

Answer 1

An object

Question 2

Verb?

Answer 2

Word used to describe a action

E.g “strucked”

Question 3

Adjective?

Answer 3

A word used to describe a noun
E.g “it was a SWEATY TTV”
Sweaty is the adjective

Question 4

Simile?

Answer 4

Figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another
E.g “he was as brave as a lion”

Question 5

Metaphor?

Answer 5

A figure of speech in a word/phrase is applied to an object/action to which are not relevant to one another
E.g “this city is a jungle”

Question 6

Hyperbole?

Answer 6

A use of obvious exaggeration for rhetoric effect

E.g “ the lady ripped his heart in two”

Question 7

Personification?

Answer 7

A metaphor attributing human feeling to an object

E.g “the stars smiled at one another”

Question 8

Onomatopoeia?

Answer 8

Words that sound a little like they mean

E.g “the leaves cracked and crunched”

Question 9

Imagery?

Answer 9

Visually descriptive or figurative language in quotes (head smell see)
E.g “the sound of” “the smell of”

Question 10

Alliteration?

Answer 10

The occurrence of words in the same letter/sound in words

E.g “sweet birds sang”

Question 11

Semantic field?

Answer 11

Words used to fit a theme

Question 12

Exaggeration?

Answer 12

The representation of something that is more extreme and dramatic than it really is

Question 13

Oxymoron?

Answer 13

Two things in a sentence being opposite to one another

E.g “inside out”