Language Features

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

Gives an inanimate object a human feeling or characteristic.

E.g. The tree danced happily, The waves roared

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of two or more connected words.

E.g. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

E.g. sizzled, cuckoo, shattered, cracked.

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

Describing something by using the words “like and as”

E.g. As sly as a fox, It was like a monster.

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

A figure of speech containing an implied comparison.

E.g. The snow is a white blanket, He is a shining star.

Question 6

Sibilance

Answer 6

A figure of speech where the hissing sound is created.

E.g. Sadly, Sam sold seven venomous serpents to Sally and Cyrus in San Francisco.

Question 7

Rhetorical questions.

Answer 7

A question that is not supposed to be answered.

E.g. How would you feel? How could you do this?

Question 8

Colloquial language

Answer 8

Used in ordinary or familiar conversation: not formally or literally.

E.g. ain’t and gonna, truck and lorrie, football and soccer

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggerated statements and language.

E.g. I’ve to.d you to clean your room a million times!

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Descriptive language, especially in literacy work

E.g. “The familiar tang of his grandmothers cranberry sauce.”

Question 11

Collective nouns

Answer 11

A noun stating groups such as a team or committee, jury or squad.

E.g. Family, school of fish, a team.

Question 12

Proper noun

Answer 12

A name of a person, place, organisation or thing.

E.g. London, The United Nations, Margret.

Question 13

Abstract noun

Answer 13

A noun denoting an idea, quality or state.

E.g. Truth, danger, happiness, love, anger.

Question 14

Pronoun

Answer 14

A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself.

E.g. You and I need to stop everybody. (You, I, everybody)

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

A figure of speech where opposite terms appear in conjunction.

E.g. Along together, Dark light, clearly confused.

Question 16

Repetition

Answer 16

The action of repeating something that has already been said.

E.g. “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow”

Question 17

Adverb

Answer 17

A word describing a verb

E.g. He spoke so fast and ran even faster (fast, faster)

Question 18

Adjective

Answer 18

A word describing a noun.

E.g. The soft dog loved the funny man. (Soft, funny)

Question 19

Verb

Answer 19

A word used to describe and action

E.g. He started to run even though he wanted to walk (run, walk)

Question 20

Noun

Answer 20

A word that is a person place or thing

E.g. Dog, London, Person

Question 21

Assonance

Answer 21

Relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vows

E.g. Hear the mellow wedding bells, try to light the fire.

Question 22

Dialect.

Answer 22

A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.

E.g. A northern American says “hello”, A southern American says “howdy”

Question 23

Dialogue

Answer 23

A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,play or film

E.g. He said…, She said… and they responded.

Question 24

Dissonance

Answer 24

Lack of harmony among musical votes.

E.g. Think of the baby crying, a person screaming or an alarm.

Question 25

Enjambment

Answer 25

(In verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the ned of a line.

E.g. The good marrow poem.

Question 26

Irony

Answer 26

The use of word to convey a meaning that is the opposite of it literal meaning.

E.g. A fire station burn down, The police station is robbed, a marriage counsellor files for divorce.

Question 27

Monologue

Answer 27

A long speech by one actor, in a book, play or film.

E.g. Plays with monologue: charge, fourteen, faith alone.

Question 28

Pathos

Answer 28

A quality that evokes pity or sadness

E.g. “if we don’t move now we will die!”

Question 29

Rhyme

Answer 29

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.

Eg. Climb, time. Call,ball.

Question 30

Rhythm

Answer 30

A strong repeated pattern of movement or sound

E.g. lamb, troche, spondee, anapaest.

Question 31

Caesura

Answer 31

(In a greek or latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.

E.g.

Question 32

Symbolism

Answer 32

A thing that represents something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

E.g. the dove is a symbol of peace.

Question 33

Semantic fields

Answer 33

A lexical set of semantically related items, for example verbs of perception.

E.g. body parts, violence, nature, colours, landforms.

Question 34

Preposition

Answer 34

Words that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else.

E.g. words like: after, before, on, under, inside and outside.

Question 35

Article

Answer 35

Words that define a noun as specific or unspecific.

E.g. and, a, the, as.