Language Techniques

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

Give a inanimate object a human feeling or characteristic

E.g. The tree danced happily in the breeze

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

E.g. The slimy snake slithered away

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

E.g. Pow , pop , blurt , thump , ding

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

Using like or as to compare something

E.g. The sand was as hot as the sun

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

A word or phrase applied to an object which is not literally applicable

E.g. The curtain of night fell upon us

Question 6

Sibalance

Answer 6

A word making a “S” or “sh” sound

Sadly sam sold seven venomous serpents to sally and Cyrus in San Francisco

Question 7

Rhetorical question

Answer 7

Asking a question but not directly asking so you don’t get a answer

E.g. Are we to believe that

Question 8

Colloquial language

Answer 8

Informal and more suitable for use in speech than in writing

E.g. Go bananas or go nuts - go insane or be very angry Y’all - you all
Wanna - want to

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

E.g. shes so dumb she thinks taco bell is a mexican phone company

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Paints a picture in your head

E.g. The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen the clouds were edged with pink and gold

Question 11

Noun

Answer 11

A noun is a object or person

E.g. The MAN walked across the ROAD

Question 12

Verb

Answer 12

A doing word

E.g. The boy RAN after me

Question 13

Adjective

Answer 13

A adjective is a descriptive word

They live in a BEAUTIFUL house

Question 14

Adverb

Answer 14

A adverb describes a verb

E.g. I rapidly ran to the shop

Question 15

Repetition

Answer 15

Repeating the same word a few times

E.g. Let it snow , let it snow , let it snow

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

E.g. suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence

Question 17

Pronoun

Answer 17

A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse

E.g. I , me , he , she , herself , you , it , that , they

Question 18

Abstract noun

Answer 18

A noun denoting an idea quality or state rather than a concrete object

E.g. when Joseph dived into the violent waves to rescue a drowning puppy his BRAVERY amazed the crowd

Question 19

Proper noun

Answer 19

A proper noun is a specific name for a particular person.Place or thing . Proper nouns are always capitalised in English no matter what

E.g. I ordered the laptop from Amazon

Question 20

Collective noun

Answer 20

A collective noun is a collection of things taken as a whole . Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing such as the word “group” which can be applied to people “ a group of people “

E.g. My family are always arguing The neighbours often hear us - a flock of sheep

Question 21

Assonance

Answer 21

Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words. Arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels

E.g. Oh , how the evening light fades over the lake

Question 22

Dialect

Answer 22

A particular form of language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group

E.g. North American “hello” South American “howdy”

Question 23

Dialogue

Answer 23

A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book , play or film

E.g. “Lisa” said Kyle “ I need help moving this box of toys for the garage sale”

Question 24

Dissonance

Answer 24

Lack of agreement or harmony between people

E.g A baby crying or a alarm

Question 25

Enjambment

Answer 25

The continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of a line or stanza

Question 26

Irony

Answer 26

the expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite typically for humorous or emphatic effect

E.g. when a customer says “ Good job “ to a waiter who dropped his tray

Question 27

Monologue

Answer 27

A long speech by one actor in a play or film or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme

Question 28

Pathos

Answer 28

A quality that evokes pity or sadness

E.g. - “ Of Woodward’s three maim characters , coasts’s journey is the most pathos filled “

Question 29

Rhyme

Answer 29

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of the words , especially when there are used at the ends of lines of poetry

E.g. - ‘balloon’ rhymes with ‘moon’

Question 30

Rhythm

Answer 30

A strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. The measured flow of words and phrases and short or stressed and unstressed syllables

E.g. - “ Ruth listened to the rhythm of his breathing “

Question 31

Caesura

Answer 31

A pause near the middle of a line

E.g. - ‘ sing a song of sixpence ‘ the caesura occurs in the middle of each line ‘ sing a song of sixpence // a pocket full of rye ‘

Question 32

Symbolism

Answer 32

An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas , emotion , and state of mind

E.g. - ‘ wandering companionless ‘ through the night sky

Question 33

Semantic field

Answer 33

A bunch of words that are based on one topic

E.g. - Football , yellow card , goal , referee , linesman

Question 34

Preposition

Answer 34

A word governing and usually preceding a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

E.g. - ‘ she arrived AFTER dinner ‘ ‘ The man ON the platform ‘

Question 35

Article

Answer 35

English has two articles the and a / am . The is used to refer to specific or particular nouns. a / am is used to modify non - specific or non - particular nouns . We call the the definite article and the a / an the indefinite article

E.g. - ‘ After THE long day , THE cup of tea tasted particularly good ‘