Language Features

Question 1

Hyperbole

Answer 1

Obvious Exaggeration
I could eat a horse

Question 2

Rhyme

Answer 2

Same sounds between words or at the end of words. Mostly used in poetry.
Cool – School – Rule – Tool – Pool – Fool.

Question 3

Rhetorical Question

Answer 3

Question that doesn’t need an answer
Who wouldn’t want to be a millionaire?

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

Objects giving human traits
The table leaned over tiredly

Question 5

Emotive Language

Answer 5

Words chosen to cause an emotional response
Heavenly, Terrifying, Betrayed

Question 6

Imperative

Answer 6

Words used to create commands
Turn left, Clean your room

Question 7

Pun

Answer 7

Humour
Never trust an atom they make up everything

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

Same/similar vowel sound
His tender heir might bear his memory

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

Repeating consonant sounds
pitter patter, drip drop

Question 10

Colloquial Language

Answer 10

Casual Words
Y’all, gonna, wanna

Question 11

Slang

Answer 11

More casual than colloquial
Groovy, Far Out

Question 12

Repetition

Answer 12

A word or phrase is repeated

Question 13

Onomatopoeia

Answer 13

The sound something makes
Boom

Question 14

Alliteration

Answer 14

Words starting with same letter
Wild wet wacky Wednesday

Question 15

Metaphor

Answer 15

Comparison without using like or as
He cried a river

Question 16

Jargon

Answer 16

Specialized terminology
Ruby players will say things others don’t understand.
Pilot using Pilot language

Question 17

Code Switching

Answer 17

A person changing languages
Go get the kai

Question 18

Simile

Answer 18

A simile is a comparison using like or as

Question 19

Euphemism

Answer 19

A word or phrase that softens a topic
He passed away

Question 20

Irony

Answer 20

Use of irony to mock
Someone who is on top of things is very disorganized

Question 21

Cliche

Answer 21

Words that are overused unspecific
Every cloud has a silver lining

Question 22

Archaism

Answer 22

A thing that is old or old fashioned
Thee Thou

Question 23

Simple Sentence

Answer 23

Sentence made of one independent clause one subject and often a single verb
I walked the cat

Question 24

Style

Answer 24

How the author sounds when they write
Formal in formal writing

Question 25

Connotation

Answer 25

When a word causes the reader to feel or think of something else Liar, Broke, Strong, tough, confident

Question 26

Complex Sentence

Answer 26

Sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause Even though it was raining, I decided to walk my cat

Question 27

Incomplete Sentence

Answer 27

A sentence that can not stand alone because it is not an independent clause In the last two months of her life, Sally white wrote

Question 28

Short Sentence

Answer 28

Sentence built from a minimum of a subject and a main verb We always eat dinner together

Question 29

Symbolism

Answer 29

When something in the text represents something else A dove (represents peace )