Terms

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

Gives an object a human feeling or characteristic

The tree dancing happily

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Words that have the same letter as the same word in front of it

The strict , stubborn stork

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Gurgle

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind

He ate like a pig

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common.
I was in heaven when i ate this Ice cream

Question 6

Sibilance

Answer 6

Sibilance is a literary device where strongly stressed consonants are created deliberately by producing air from vocal tracts through the use of lips and tongue
Sadly, Sam sold seven venomous serpents to Sally and Cyrus in San Francisco.

Question 7

Rhetorical question

Answer 7

When a question is asked but not to be said

Is this the end of the world?

Question 8

Colloquial language

Answer 8

How people talk to each other so informal

Ain’t or/and didn’t

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggerated statements

I killed at least a million people

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Visually descriptive

The writer created it to show a sadder emotion

Question 11

Noun

Answer 11

A noun is a word that refers to a thing

‘The man walked across the road’

Question 12

Verb

Answer 12

A verb is a doing or an action to something

‘I was walking’

Question 13

Adjective

Answer 13

Describing a noun

‘I walked to the scary house’

Question 14

Adverb

Answer 14

Describing a verb

I was walking slowly

Question 15

Repetition

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Repetition is the simple repeating of a word.

‘Let it go, let it go, let it go’

Question 16

Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which apparently contradicting terms appear in conjunctions

‘The same difference’

Question 17

Pronoun

Answer 17

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun with ‘he or she’

‘He waved at her’

Question 18

Abstract noun

Answer 18

A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.

‘The love is in the air’

Question 19

Proper noun

Answer 19

Identifies a single entity

‘Dog , city , love , movie’

Question 20

Collective noun

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Is a collection of things taken as a whole.

‘A group of people’

Question 21

Assonance

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Resemblance of sound between the syllables of nearby words.

‘Killed , cold , culled’

Question 22

Dialect

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A particular form of language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group

‘Howdy , hello’

Question 23

Dialogue

Answer 23

A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,play, or film

“Lisa” , said kyle “ i’m stuck help!”

Question 24

Dissonance

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Lack of agreement of harmony between people or things

“A baby crying , a person screaming and an alarm”

Question 25

Enjambment

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Runs over from one poetic line the next without terminal punctuation.

Question 26

Irony

Answer 26

The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.

Question 27

Monologue

Answer 27

A long speech who is spoken by only one person

Question 28

Pathos

Answer 28

A way of visualising the feelings of the audience