Terms

Question 1

Adjective and adjectival phrase

Answer 1

An adjective phrase is a group of words that describe a noun or pronoun in a sentence. The adjective in an adjective phrase can appear at the start, end, or in the middle of the phrase. The adjective phrase can be placed before, or after, the noun or pronoun in the sentence.

Question 2

Verbs

Answer 2

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence

Question 3

Simile

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

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 5

Adverb and adverbial phrases

Answer 5

an adverbial phrase is a group of words operating adverbially, meaning that their syntactic function is to modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 7

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 7

the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

Question 8

Comparative adjective

Answer 8

A form of an adjective indicating a greater degree of the quality that the adjective describes.

Question 9

Superlative adjective

Answer 9

A superlative adjective compares three or more nouns.

Question 10

Dehumanisation

Answer 10

the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.

Question 11

semantic field

Answer 11

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