Language Features Flashcards
Learn english language features to refer to.
Rhyme
The end of the words have the same sound.
Example: Once upon a midnight dreary where i pondered weak and weary.
Rhythm
A regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Example: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words - usually close in sound.
Example: Having Heard the Song, He Sang it Softly.
Assonance
Vowel sounds are repeated at the beginning or middle of nearby words.
Example: hER EARly leaf’s a flower.
Onomatopoeia
Words sound like the same they name.
Example: The Brrring of the alarm woke me up.
Repetition
Repeating the same or nearly the same words for effect.
Example: “Come on, Come on !”.
Simile
An image which compares two things using like or as.
Example: The playground was as empty as a a ghost town.
Metaphor
An image which compare two things without using like or as.
Example: The fireworks were sparkling flowers flowers in the night sky.
Personification
An image which gives human qualities to a non-human object.
Example: The night hung out in the lantern sky.
Colloquial language
Most likely used in direct speech.
Example: “Hey guys, let’s cut loose tonight and paint the town red.”
Pun
Words play involving the use of a word with tow different meanings or two words that sounds the same but mean different things.
Example: Let’s ‘TACO” bout it.
Hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration.
Example: I’ve told you thousand times before to clean your bedroom.
Simple Sentences
Passing the school, we saw the flames pouring out of the office.
Compound Sentences
These have two minimum complete verbs and each part of the sentence can stand on it’s own.
Example: We danced all night, then climbed the hill to see the sun rise.
Complex Sentences
These have two minimum complete verbs; the part of the sentence which had one of those verbs, but cannot stand on its own, its called a subordinate clause.
Although the sky was overcast, no snow fell that night.
