Examples

Question 1

Brave gran risks life to save emaciated orphan

Answer 1

Emotive language

Question 2

Why did you do that? Why didn’t you tell me?

Answer 2

Epiplexis

Question 3

She’s safe, like I promised. She’s happy, like I promised. She’s fine, like I promised.

Answer 3

Epiphora

Question 4

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 5

Two siblings in a story and one is always good and one is always evil (opposite)

Answer 5

Juxtaposition

Question 6

He was crying, scared, horrified and panicking

Answer 6

Lexical chain

Question 7

The casserole wasn’t too bad

The trip wasn’t a total loss

Answer 7

Liotes

Question 8

Words like: must, have to, has to, mustn’t

Low: may, might, could, wouldn’t, couldn’t,

Answer 8

Modality

Question 9

If we don’t move in soon, we are going to die! We are in danger!

Answer 9

Pathos

Question 10

Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Answer 10

Alliteration

Question 11

Her dress was as yellow as the sun

Answer 11

Simile

Question 12

An ecstasy of fumbling

Answer 12

Metaphor

Question 13

Gas! Gas!

Answer 13

Repition

Question 14

Like a man in fire or lime–

Answer 14

Extended pause

Question 15

The breath of the wet season and washed their inscriptions

Answer 15

Personification

Question 16

Sweet sleep with soft down

Answer 16

Sibilance

Question 17

And that’s all.

Answer 17

Parataxis

Question 18

White eyes, writhing in his face

Answer 18

Imagery (visual)

Question 19

I thought we had it all, but I guess not

Answer 19

Disjunction

Question 20

And that’s all……

Answer 20

Ellipsis

Question 21

Johnny went there and everywhere

Answer 21

Assonance

Question 22

Juvenile

Answer 22

Connotations