Spelling Week 5 // DONE

Question 1

Antithesis

Answer 1

Meaning - something that is the direct opposite of something else
Sentence - love is the antithesis of selfishness. As well as the devil being the antithesis to God.

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Meaning - repetition of a sound of syllable with a phrase or sentence.
Sentence - Mike likes his new bike

Question 3

Colloquialism

Answer 3

Meaning - a word or phrase that is not formal

Sentence - Brolly - an umbrella

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

Meaning - a feeling or idea that is suggested by a particular word
Sentence - the word ‘discipline’ has unhappy connotations of punishment .

Question 5

Ellipsis

Answer 5

Meaning - that the writer has left out a word, phrase, line or paragraph from a quoted passage.
Sentence - this changes everything…

Question 6

Figurative Language

Answer 6

Meaning - Figurative language is phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across
Sentence - Her eyes were as green as an emerald (personification - figurative language)

Question 7

Juxtaposition

Answer 7

Meaning - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Sentence - All’s fair in love and war.

Question 8

Parallelism

Answer 8

Meaning - one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure
Sentence - Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Question 9

Holophrastic

Answer 9

Meaning - expressing a complex of ideas in a single word or in a fixed phrase
Sentence - he word “food” might be used to mean “Give me food”

Question 10

Monosyllabic

Answer 10

Meaning - consisting of one syllable.

Sentence - Okay, yes, no, dance, food, fun.