Language Feature Flashcards
Smilie
A comparison where one thing is compared to another, using the words like or as
Metaphor
A comparison where one thing is said to actually be another
Personification
When you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn’t human
Alliteration
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words to create an effect
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates a sound
Pattern of three
Listing three things to create a specific effect
Language for emotive effect
Words and phrases deliberately used to provoke a specific emotional reaction
Rhetorical question
A question that is asked for effect rather than for an answer
Adjective
A word that describes a place person or thing
Verb
A doing or being a word that has a tense
Phrase
A group of words that can be understood as a unit
Clause
A type of phrase that includes a subject and an active verb
Simple sentence
The most basic form of sentence, consisting of a subject and a verb
Compound sentence
A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction such as for,and,nor,but,or,yet,so
Complex sentence
A sentence that has a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. The clauses are linked by a subordinating conjunction such as because,since,after.
