Writing Techniques

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

Comparing two things using like or as

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

Comparing two things without using like or as

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

When you make non-living things have attributes like a person

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

Using the same two letters at the beginning of the word

Great goal

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

A word that imitates a sound

Question 6

Pattern of three

Answer 6

Using three things to make an effect

Stop,look and listen

Question 7

Language for emotive effect

Answer 7

To make the reader feel emotive (sad)

Question 8

Rhetorical question

Answer 8

A question that is asking for effect rather than a answer

Question 9

Adjective

Answer 9

A word that describes a noun

Question 10

Verb

Answer 10

A verb is doing something physical

Question 11

Phrase

Answer 11

a group of words that describes a unit

Question 12

Clause

Answer 12

A type of phrase using a active verb and a subject

Question 13

Simple sentence

Answer 13

The most basic form of a sentence using a verb and a subject

He ran

Question 14

Compound sentence

Answer 14

A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined with a conjunction such as for and but yet so etc

Question 15

Complex sentence

Answer 15

A sentence that has a main clause and a subordinate clauses. Joined by a conjunction such as because, since, after,or when etc

Question 16

Punctuation

Answer 16

Punctuation is a symbol/marks to make a sentence make sense or to create an effect