Language Features

Question 1

Rhyme

Answer 1

The end of the words have the same sound.

Example: Once upon a midnight dreary where i pondered weak and weary.

Question 2

Rhythm

Answer 2

A regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Example: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Question 3

Alliteration

Answer 3

Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words - usually close in sound.
Example: Having Heard the Song, He Sang it Softly.

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

Vowel sounds are repeated at the beginning or middle of nearby words.
Example: hER EARly leaf’s a flower.

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

Words sound like the same they name.

Example: The Brrring of the alarm woke me up.

Question 6

Repetition

Answer 6

Repeating the same or nearly the same words for effect.

Example: “Come on, Come on !”.

Question 7

Simile

Answer 7

An image which compares two things using like or as.

Example: The playground was as empty as a a ghost town.

Question 8

Metaphor

Answer 8

An image which compare two things without using like or as.

Example: The fireworks were sparkling flowers flowers in the night sky.

Question 9

Personification

Answer 9

An image which gives human qualities to a non-human object.

Example: The night hung out in the lantern sky.

Question 10

Colloquial language

Answer 10

Most likely used in direct speech.

Example: “Hey guys, let’s cut loose tonight and paint the town red.”

Question 11

Pun

Answer 11

Words play involving the use of a word with tow different meanings or two words that sounds the same but mean different things.
Example: Let’s ‘TACO” bout it.

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

Deliberate exaggeration.

Example: I’ve told you thousand times before to clean your bedroom.

Question 13

Simple Sentences

Answer 13

Passing the school, we saw the flames pouring out of the office.

Question 14

Compound Sentences

Answer 14

These have two minimum complete verbs and each part of the sentence can stand on it’s own.
Example: We danced all night, then climbed the hill to see the sun rise.

Question 15

Complex Sentences

Answer 15

These have two minimum complete verbs; the part of the sentence which had one of those verbs, but cannot stand on its own, its called a subordinate clause.
Although the sky was overcast, no snow fell that night.

Question 16

Rhetorical Question

Answer 16

A question that does not expect answer from the reader or audience.
Example: So what would result form such a plan? chaos, that’s what.

Question 17

Listing

Answer 17

Objects/reasons/parts of a whole are listed with commas.

Example: We gave him chips, coke, burgers, cookies and lollies because he was hungry.

Question 18

Connotation

Answer 18

The meaning that is implied.

Example: That man’s a real weasel.

Question 19

Verbal Irony

Answer 19

Saying the opposite of what you mean.

Example: cultural icons like the McDonald’s carpark.