Block Test- Language Features

Question 1

Define similes

Answer 1

Comparing something using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 2

Define metaphor

Answer 2

Comparing something without using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 3

Define allusions

Answer 3

Things that people recognise- junk food, etc.

Question 4

Define alliteration

Answer 4

Alliteration is repeating consonant sounds in a series of words

Question 5

Define rhetorical questions

Answer 5

Rhetorical questions are questions that do not expect an answer.

Question 6

Define linking phrases

Answer 6

Linking phrases are used to join two ideas together (using because, so, instead etc.)

Question 7

Define listing

Answer 7

Listing is using different objects and examples in the form of a list.

Question 8

Define rhyme

Answer 8

Rhyme is word endings that sound alike

Question 9

Define imperatives

Answer 9

Imperatives are a call for action

Question 10

Define onomatopeia

Answer 10

The word that makes a sound (pop, bang, crackle, sizzle)

Question 11

Define assonance

Answer 11

Assonance is repeating vowel sounds in a series of words

Question 12

Define hyperbole

Answer 12

An hyperbole is an over-exaggeration

Question 13

Define pun

Answer 13

A pun is a play-on words

Question 14

Define personification

Answer 14

Personification is giving an inanimate object human qualities

Question 15

Define imagery

Answer 15

Imagery is using words to create a picture in the readers mind.

Question 16

Define connotation

Answer 16

Connotations is the meaning and what is related to a sentence or a word (e.g if someone said red, you might have connotations with anger)