Subject terminology

Question 1

What is a metaphor?

Answer 1

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 2

What is a simile?

Answer 2

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).

Question 3

What is pathetic fallacy?

Answer 3

the attribution of human feelings and responses to weather. Eg, the raindrops wept around him.

Question 4

What is a onomatopoeia?

Answer 4

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).

Question 5

What is a assonance?

Answer 5

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled ).

Question 6

What is a superlative?

Answer 6

(of an adjective or adverb) expressing the highest or a very high degree of a quality (e.g. bravest, most fiercely ).