Language features

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

A noun is a name of a place, thing, or a person.

Question 2

What are the 8 part of speech?

Answer 2

1. Noun
2. Verb
3. Interjection
4. Preposition
5. Adjective
6. Article
7. conjunction
8. Adverb

Question 3

What is a proper noun?

Answer 3

A proper noun is a name of a SPECIFIC person, place or thing. The first letter is usually capitalised.

Question 4

What is a common noun?

Answer 4

A common noun is a name of a non-specific person, place or thing and is not capitalised.

Question 5

What is a verb?

Answer 5

Verb is an action or state of mind.

Is, am and are all verbs.

Question 6

What is subject and object

Answer 6

Subject is what the verb is done by.

Object is what the verb is done to.

Question 7

What is an adjective?

Answer 7

An adjective describes a noun

Question 8

What is modal verbs?

Answer 8

Expresses necessity and possibility.

Should, must, can

Question 9

What is an imperative?

Answer 9

An imperative is a command

Question 10

What is a pronoun?

Answer 10

A pronoun is used in place of a noun.

Question 11

What is superlative?

Answer 11

The adjective showing highest quality or degree.

• est

best, tallest, greatest…

Question 12

What is comparative adjectives?

Answer 12

Adjective that compares two or more things.

• taller, greater, better (ER)

Question 13

What is symbolism?

Answer 13

The use of symbols to represent something like an idea.

Question 14

What is alliteration?

Answer 14

The same letter starting for 2 or more words that are close to each other.

Question 15

What is a simile?

Answer 15

A simile compares two or more things using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Question 16

What is a metaphor?

Answer 16

A metaphor compares one thing to another directly.

Question 17

What is personification?

Answer 17

Giving human qualities to non-human things.

Question 18

What is hyperbole?

Answer 18

Hyperbole is exaggeration of something.

Question 19

What is imagery?

Answer 19

Imagery is vivid description.

Question 20

What is simple sentence?

Answer 20

Contains one clause with the subject and the verb.

Question 21

What is connotation?

Answer 21

Connotation is the feeling implied by the word.

Question 22

What is a compound sentence?

Answer 22

Contained two independent clauses joined by co-ordinating conjunction.

Question 23

What is complex sentence?

Answer 23

Contains one independent and one dependent clause joined by sub-ordinating conjunction.

Question 24

What is repetition?

Answer 24

Repeating a word or a phrase

Question 25

What is triplets?

Answer 25

Three adjectives used to describe something.

Question 26

What is juxtaposition?

Answer 26

Two things place close to each other to show the contrast.

Question 27

What is anaphora?

Answer 27

The repetition of words or phrases at the begging of two or more sentence.

Question 28

What is listing?

Answer 28

List of things.

List is compiled of group of nouns. What is the effect of grouping noun together?

syndetic listing- using conjunction between the noun.

Asyndetic listing- listing things without using conjunction.

(Pace of the text and the feeling evoked by readers)

Question 29

Narrative voice?

Answer 29

first person narrative- I, me

second person narrative- you (targets the audience)

third person narrative- they, them (omniscent view)

Question 30

What is direct speech?

Answer 30

The dialogue of character in quotation marks.

Question 31

Tense

Answer 31

• Is it past tense

Is it present tense

Is it future tense