Language techniques

Question 1

What is a adjective?

Example included!

Answer 1

A word that describes an animal, person, thing, or thought.

e.g. ‘It was a terrible book’, The word ‘terrible’ is an adjective

Question 2

What is an adverb?

An adverb is often formed by adding -ly to an adjective. However, there is some adverbs that doesn’t end up with ‘-ly’

Answer 2

A word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

E.g. He ate his breakfast quickly. The word ‘quickly’ is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.

Question 3

What is a verb?

Example included!

Answer 3

A word used to describe an action, state or occurrence.

E.g. The rabbit was jumping in the field. ‘Jumping’ is the verb because it is demonstrating the action that the rabbit has done.

Question 4

What is Alliteration?

Answer 4

A repetition of words that look and sound alike

E.g. ‘We went whale watching’ The letter ‘w’ is the alliteration

Question 5

What is a metaphor?

Answer 5

Describing someone or something that makes a non-literal comparison by showing their similarity with something else

E.g. ‘She has a heart of gold’

Question 6

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 6

The naming of a thing or action (word) by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it which represents the sound.

Question 7

What is personification?

Answer 7

You take an object or animal and give it human qualities, such as emotions or thoughts. (Or reversed)

E.g. ‘The flowers danced to the wind’

Question 8

What is a simile?

Answer 8

Words that uses ‘like’ or ‘such’ E.g. “He was as quiet as a mouse”

Question 9

What is a symbolism?

Answer 9

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

‘Red roses symbolize love’

Question 10

What is a hyperbole?

Answer 10

An exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally

‘I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse’

Question 11

What is assonance?

Vowel = A, E, I, O, U, Y. Consonant = B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z

Answer 11

Where the same vowel sound is repeated but the consonants are different

E.g. “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains”

Question 12

What is consolance?

Answer 12

The repetition of the same sounds (mainly consonants) usually at the beginning of words.

E.g. ‘She sells seashells by the seashore’

Question 13

What is repetition?

Answer 13

Words, phrases or ideas are repeated for effect.

E.g. “Stephen tried and tried and tried to get the ball in the net.”

Question 14

What is a motif?

Answer 14

Any repeated idea, theme or image that has a symbolic significance in the text.

E.g. “rotten apple…feverish heat…plague of flies…sickened trees…”

Question 15

What is listing?

Answer 15

A number of connected items written one after the other.

E.g. “Phoebe saw that the garden was over-flowing with foxgloves, lupins, daisies, sun-flowers and pretty weeds of all shapes and heights.”

Question 16

What is metonymy

Answer 16

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it’s closely related

E.g. “Give me a hand” means to give someone help.

Question 17

What is a proper noun?

Answer 17

A named used for an person, place or organization - that always have a capital letter

“Jonathan,” “Ollie,” “New York,” “Monday”

Question 18

What is a noun?

Answer 18

A word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea

E.g. man, woman, teacher, John, Mary.

Question 19

What is pronoun?

Answer 19

A pronoun is a word that can replace a noun in a sentence. Pronouns such as: I, me, you, he, she, it, we, they, us, them, who, what, this, that, anyone, nobody, something. myself, yourself, itself, herself, himself, ourselves, themselves, him, her.

E.g. ‘We looked for Britney at her house, but she wasn’t there’

Question 20

What is preposition?

Answer 20

It tell us where something is. Words such as: inside, outside, in, out, above, under, top, onto, off, on, towards, besides, up, down, underneath, over, during.

E.g. ‘There is some milk in the fridge’

Question 21

What is oxymoron?

Answer 21

A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

E.g. “Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!”

Question 22

What is juxtaposition?

Answer 22

When you place two concepts or objects next to or near each other, thereby highlighting their innate differences and similarities

‘All’s fair in love and war’

Question 23

What is sibilance?

Answer 23

Figure of speech where a hissing sound is created in a group of words through the repetition of ‘s’ sounds.

“Sarah’s silly sister swallowed her sweet.”

Question 24

What is rule of three?

Answer 24

Any ideas, thoughts, events, characters or sentences that are presented in threes are more effective and memorable.

“Mind, body, spirit”

Question 25

What is epiphany?

Answer 25

a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization.
“a few years ago, I had an epiphany”

“a few years ago, I had an epiphany”

Question 26

What is a semantic field?

Answer 26

A set of words (or lexemes) related in meaning

For example, if a writer is writing a poem or a novel about a ship, they will surely use words such as ocean, waves, sea, tide, blue, storm, wind, sails,

Question 27

What is a anecdote?

Answer 27

a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

“I remember when I used to sit on my dad’s lap while he drove around town delivering mail.”

Question 28

What is direct address?

Answer 28

a construction in which a speaker or writer communicates a message directly to another individual or group of individuals. The person(s) being addressed may be identified by name, nickname, the pronoun you, or an expression that’s either friendly or unfriendly.

Question 29

What is emotive language?

Answer 29

Emotive language is the use of descriptive words, often adjectives, that can show the reader how an author or character feels about something, evoke an emotional response from the reader, and persuade the reader of something.

Question 30

What is Irony?

Answer 30

one thing is said, while another thing is meant.

if it were a cold, rainy gray day, you might say, “What a beautiful day!” Or, alternatively, if you were suffering from a bad bout of food poisoning, you might say, “Wow, I feel great today.”