Vocabulary techniques

Question 1

nouns

Answer 1

nouns are naming words aplace, a thing or a person
I am called ‘Haris’

Question 2

adjectives

Answer 2

describing words
Zayna’s birthday cake was extremely ‘nice’

Question 3

verbs

Answer 3

doing an action
i was ‘playing’ football

Question 4

adverbs

Answer 4

describing a verb that usually ends with ‘ly’
i was playing Fortnite quietly so my parents don’t wake up

Question 5

similie

Answer 5

a sentence or phrase that has as or like
we use similies to compare 2 things
the room was as hot as the sun

Question 6

metaphor

Answer 6

saying that something is something else
they have a heart of gold

Question 7

onomatopoeia

Answer 7

a word used to decribe a noise
‘BANG’

Question 8

personification

Answer 8

giving something human terms
the sun was smiling

Question 9

alliteration

Answer 9

2 or more words that start with the same letter
i find football fun

Question 10

sibilance

Answer 10

starts with the same hissing sound at the start of the letters
the car swerved sideways

Question 11

consonance

Answer 11

the repetition of constant sounds either whithin a word or at the end of a word
mike likes his new bike

Question 12

oxymoron

Answer 12

putting together 2 words that oppose each other
there was a cold fire

Question 12

assonance

Answer 12

repetiton of vowel sounds in a sentence
i like to bike with mike

Question 13

juxtaposition

Answer 13

put 2 contrasting characters or objects to highlight the difference
there was a really nice car on a run down road

Question 14

syntax

Answer 14

the way we put words together in the correct order
subject, verb, object
i played football

Question 15

dissonance

Answer 15

a disruption of sounds or rhythm in a sentence used mostly in poetry

Question 16

hyperbole

Answer 16

overexaggerating
overemphasise something
something
the wind blew off my hair

Question 17

speech

Answer 17

when a character is speaking in a text in quotation marks

Question 18

irony

Answer 18

when someone says something thats unexpected to something
i am a vegetarian but i eat meat

Question 19

sarcasm

Answer 19

using words that are the opposite of what you really want to say
are you reading a book
no I’m not, I’m looking at the pictures

Question 20

emotive language

Answer 20

using language that makes the reader feel sympathy or any type of emotion
I’m furious

Question 21

rhetorical questions

Answer 21

a question that does not need an answer
are you serious?

Question 22

perspective

Answer 22

talking about someones point of view or opinion

Question 23

narrative voice

Answer 23

voice of the narrator