Language Features Flashcards
Simile
A comparison where on thing is compared to another, using the words like or as.
Example: Eating Ice-Cream is like being in heaven.
Metaphor
A comparison where one thing is said to actually be another.
Example: When i eat ice cream i am in heaven.
Personification
When you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn’t human or, in some cases, to something that isn’t even alive.
Example: He did not realise that his last chance was walking out the door.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words to create effect.
Example: Great Goal.
Pattern of three.
Listing three things to create a specific effect.
Example: Stop,Look,Listen.
Language for emotive effect.
Words and phrases deliberately used to provoke a specific emotional reaction.
Example: The defenceless kittens were crammed into the box
Rhetorical Question.
A question that is asked for effect rather than for an answer.
Example: Who wants to look at something like that?
Adjective
A word that describes a place,person or thing (noun)
A popular film
Verb
A doing or being word that has a tense (present,past or future)
I swam across the lake
Clause
A type of phrase that includes a subject and an active verb
Because she smiled at him
Phrase
A group of words that can be understood as a unit
Around the race track.
Simple sentence (single-clause sentence)
The most basic form of sentence consisting of a subject and verb
Compound sentence ( a type of multi-clause sentence)
A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a co-ordinating conjunction such as for,and,nor,but,or,yet,so
My girlfriend was watching television and i went out.
Complex sentence ( a type of multi-clause sentence)
A sentence that has a main clause and one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses. The clauses are linked by a subordinating conjunction such as because,since,after,although or when.
The Student who had just finished her last exam was out celebrating.
Punctuation
Marks used to aid the understanding of a piece of writing. Writers can use punctuation imaginatively to create an effect.
He was late-very late-almost to late!
