Year Seven - Mid Year Test Flashcards
Simile
The term for describing a thing or person by using as or like.
E.g The baby was as cute as a puppy
Metaphor
A metaphor is the term for describing a thing or person as something else.
The man was a roaring lion.
Caesura
The term for a pause in the middle of a line.
Enjambment
The term for splitting one sentence into two lines
Tone and tonal shift
The term for how high, the quality and the strength a person speaks
Iambic pentameter
The term for making a louder sound in a sentence.
E.g a heart beat da-DUM
Personification
The term for giving a non-human object human characteristics
Alliteration
Multiple different words in a row starting with the same sound
E.g The massive monster of a man made millions of markers
Rhyme scheme
The term for how words rhyme
E.g I like cheese
It is nice in the breeze
When I wheeze
There are lots of bees
Rhythm
The regular repeat of a sound or beat
Repetition
The term for repeating a word or phrase regularly
Onomatopoeia
The term that describes or imitates a sound
E.g BANG
Slang
The informal version of a word that is a different word
E.g cheddar - money
Colloquial language
Speaking informally and using slang and informal words/phrases
Nonsensical language
The formal term for gibberish which is speech that does not make any sense or using words that aren’t real like bosh and tomfoolery
