Language Features Flashcards
1
Q
What is a Simile?
A
An image that compares 2 things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
2
Q
What is a metaphor?
A
An image that compares 2 things without using like or as
3
Q
What is personification?
A
A human attribute given to an inanimate object
4
Q
What is onomatopoeia?
A
Words sound like the sounds they name
5
Q
What is alliteration?
A
Repetition of the same constant sound at the beginning of words usually in sucession
6
Q
Repetition
A
Repeating the same word for effect
7
Q
What is Hyperbole?
A
Deliberate exaggeration
8
Q
Rhetorical question
A
A question that does not require a response
9
Q
Emotive Language
A
A choice of words by the writer to cause an emotional effect or to create an emotional response from the reader.
