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Question 1

What is a noun

Answer 1

A person,place or thing

Question 2

What is a proper noun

Answer 2

Special person,place or thing

Question 3

What is a common noun

Answer 3

Ordinary thing

Question 4

What is a concrete noun

Answer 4

Name of a thing which you can feel, see or smell

Question 5

What is an abstract noun

Answer 5

A feeling/idea/quality you can’t see or smell

Question 6

What is a collective noun

Answer 6

A group

Question 7

What is an Adjective

Answer 7

It describes a noun. They are sometimes called describing words

Question 8

What is this word. You’ve

Answer 8

You have

Question 9

What is this word. I’ve

Answer 9

I have

Question 10

What is this word. I’ll

Answer 10

I will

Question 11

What is this word. Haven’t

Answer 11

Have not

Question 12

What is this word. It’s

Answer 12

It is / it has

Question 13

What is this word. Can’t

Answer 13

Can not

Question 14

What is this word. They’re

Answer 14

They are

Question 15

What is this word. We’re

Answer 15

We are

Question 16

What is a homophone ?

Answer 16

A word that sound the same but is spelt differently and has a different meaning

Question 17

What is a colon ?

Answer 17

They often introduce an explanation.
The bit after explains or expands.
Colons can come before a list, quotation or answer

Question 18

What is a dash ?

Answer 18

Create a pause (can creat surprise or drama).
Use instead of a semi-colon in informal writing

Question 19

What is a semi-colon ?

Answer 19

Helps you join closely connected ideas in a sentence.
It can also break up a list

Question 20

What is onomatopoeia

Answer 20

A word that sound like the noise it describes

Question 21

What is an adverb ?

Answer 21

An adverb describes a verb
Then add ly

Question 22

Alliteration

Answer 22

The repetition of the same constant sound at the beginning of words

Question 23

Haiku

Answer 23

1st line = 5 syllables
2nd line = 7 syllables
3rd line =5 syllables

Question 24

Personification

Answer 24

Human characteristics are given to non- human things

Question 25

Onomatopoeia

Answer 25

The use of words which sound like there meaning

Question 26

Simile

Answer 26

Compares 2 unlike things using like or as

Question 27

Metaphors

Answer 27

Compares 2 unlike things, stating one is the other

Question 28

Eulogy

Answer 28

Tribute to someone’s life usually read aloud

Question 29

Emotive language k

Answer 29

The term used when certain word choices are made to evoke an emotional response in the reader

Question 30

Hyperbole

Answer 30

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 31

Personification

Answer 31

The attribute of a personal nature or human characteristic to something non human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

Question 32

Simile

Answer 32

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with an other thing f a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid e.g. as light as a feather

Question 33

Onomatopoeia

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Alliteration

Answer 34

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of advancement or closely connected words

Question 35

Metaphor

Answer 35

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action is not taken literally

Question 36

Colour imagery

Answer 36

Using colours it represent a deeper meaning

Question 37

Ellipsis

Answer 37

The omissions from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from context clues …

Question 38

Imperative

Answer 38

Can’t b3 avoided or evaded/sentence that gives urgent commands

Question 39

Dialogue

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 40

The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals (especially in art or literature) (mostly used in weather)

Question 41

Sensory appeal

Answer 41

Draws ficus on Amy of the 5 senses. Creates immediacy