Language Features

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

A rhetorical device that is used to compare two things. This comparison is set up by using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another (My mum has a heart of gold).

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea (The trees danced in the wind).

Question 4

Metonym

Answer 4

The name for one thing is substituted as the name of something with which it has been closely associated with (I gave you my heart).

Question 5

Synechdote

Answer 5

A part stands for the whole (a form of metonym) - ‘All hands on deck!’

Question 6

Symbolism

Answer 6

The use of words or images to symbolise specific concepts, people, objects, or events (a rose for love or a cross for God).

Question 7

Allegory

Answer 7

Abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. The objective of its use is to preach some kind of moral lesson
A story within a story. It has a “surface story” and another story hidden underneath (Tortoise and the hare - Slow and steady wins the race)

Question 8

Idiom

Answer 8

A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deduucible from those of the individual words (Break a leg)

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.
(Good grief and red rose)

Question 10

Assonance

Answer 10

Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in bowel sounds that are unaccented.
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Question 11

Consonance

Answer 11

Repeated consonance sounds at the end of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in unaccented vowel sounds. This produces a pleasing kind of near-rhyme (She sells seashells by the seashore).

Question 12

Cacophony

Answer 12

A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds helps to convey disorder. This is often furthered by the combined effect of the meaning and the difficulty of pronunciation (He is a rotten, dirty, terrible, trudging, stupid dude!)

Question 13

Euphony

Answer 13

A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language (mists, mellow, close, sun, bless, vines, and eves)

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

Words that sound like their meanings (Bark, Clink, and Clash)

Question 15

Repetition

Answer 15

The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect (“OUR DOUBT IS OUR PASSION,AND OUR PASSION IS OUR TASK.”)

Question 16

Rhyme

Answer 16

Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it, are said to rhyme (Cat-hat).