Language Features

Question 1

What is a Quotation

Answer 1

Direct use of another’s words (spoken or written)

Question 2

What is an Allusion

Answer 2

A reference to another work

Question 3

What is a Personification

Answer 3

An image which gives human qualities to non-human things.

Question 4

What is a Rhyme

Answer 4

The ends of words have the same sound. Usually at the ends of lines in poetry, but may be internal (within a line).

Question 5

What is a Rhythm

Answer 5

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Question 6

What is a Use of authority figures

Answer 6

The words (or image) of a famous person or celebrity are used

Question 6

What is an Irony

Answer 6

saying the opposite of what you mean

Question 7

What is an Alliteration

Answer 7

Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words – usually close in succession.

Question 7

What is an Assonance

Answer 7

Vowel sounds are repeated at the beginning or middle of nearby words.

Question 8

What is an Onomatopoeia

Answer 8

Words sound like the sounds they name.

Question 8

What is Sound clusters

Answer 8

A group of sounds is repeated throughout a sentence or a group of lines in a poem, not just at the beginnings of words.

Question 8

What is a Sarcasm

Answer 8

Unkind humour directed against what the writer / speaker doesn’t like

Question 9

What is a Contrast

Answer 9

Using word of opposite meaning close together

Question 10

What is an Emotive language

Answer 10

Choice of words which have specifically intended emotional effects or are intended to evoke an emotional response in the reader

Question 11

What is a Complex sentence

Answer 11

These have a minimum of two complete verbs; the part of the sentence which has one of those verbs, but cannot stand on its own, is called a subordinate clause

Question 11

What is a Symbolism

Answer 11

Use of an object (concrete noun) to represent some emotion or belief system or other abstract noun

Question 12

What is a Use of comand(Imperative)

Answer 12

This is the verb used alone (without a noun or pronoun). Can be used with adverbs or other word classes.

Question 13

What is a Compound sentence

Answer 13

These have a minimum of two complete verbs and each part of the sentence can stand on its own.

Question 14

What is a Simple sentences

Answer 14

These have only one complete verb, though there may be one or more incomplete verbs.

Question 15

What is a Use of multiple adjectives and adverbs

Answer 15

The adjectives give more information about the noun and the adverbs about the verb

Question 15

What is a Hyperbole

Answer 15

Deliberate exaggeration

Question 15

What is a Pun

Answer 15

Word play involving the use of a word with two different meanings or two words that sound the same but mean different things.
Often used in advertising.

Question 16

What is a Choice of words

Answer 16

Using more unusual or specialized or technical words

Question 17

What is a Parallel construction

Answer 17

Using the same word class order twice (in same or two sentences)

Question 18

What is a Use of direct and indirect speech

Answer 18

Quoting or reporting spoken words

Question 19

What is a Triple construction

Answer 19

Repeating three times a group of words which have the same pattern of word classes. Each group may or may not start with the same word/s.

Question 20

What is a Neologism

Answer 20

New word – an invented word

Question 21

What is a Listing

Answer 21

Objects/reasons/parts of a whole, etc. are listed – in text, usually with commas separating them; in adverts/web pages or text, can be with bullet points

Question 22

What is a Euphism

Answer 22

Use of a less objectionable or harsh expression to avoid upsetting or offending people