Language Technique

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person

eg:
The tree danced happily

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Multiple words with the same beginning in a row

eg:
Super Soft Snake

Question 3

Onamatapia

Answer 3

Words describing sounds

eg:
The bacon sizzled

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common

eg:
I was in hell that cold night

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

Using words such as , like and as to describe something

eg:
Sam ate like a pig

Question 6

Sibilance

Answer 6

Having multiple words in a row beginning with S

eg:
Sam Saved the day

Question 7

Rhetorical question

Answer 7

A question not supposed to be answered

eg:
You want people to live like this ?

Question 8

Colloquialism

Answer 8

Using informal language

eg:
I was chantin to this geeza

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

This is exaggeration

eg:
The man must of been 10ft

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Using words to describe a place

eg:
The mountain travelled across the horizon underneath the light blue sky

Question 11

Noun

Answer 11

A noun is a person place or thing

eg:
The lady rode a boat

Question 12

Verb

Answer 12

An action word

eg:
He yelled at the old man

Question 13

Adjective

Answer 13

This describes a noun

eg:
The red rose

Question 14

Adverb

Answer 14

This describes a verb

eg:
He slowly approached the old man

Question 15

Repetition

Answer 15

This is where you repeat yourself for effect

eg:
“He was massive, then he walked over with his massive shadow”

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

Using two words whit opposite definitions

eg:
They all had the same difference

Question 17

Pronoun

Answer 17

A word to take place of a noun

eg:
He ate a burger

Question 18

Abstract noun

Answer 18

Something you cannot see

eg:
He could feel the love in the air

Question 19

Proper Noun

Answer 19

A noun that names a person

eg:
Henry loved dogs

Question 20

Collective noun

Answer 20

A word that describes a group of nouns

eg:
These people are very annoying

Question 21

Assonance

Answer 21

Repetition of sound that appears multiple times in the text

eg:
You could taste the spring paste

Question 22

Dialect

Answer 22

A variation of standard language based on your location

eg:
Me ma is making me some proper sran today la

Question 23

Dialouge

Answer 23

A conversation between two or more different people

eg:
“

Question 24

dissonance

Answer 24

Lack of agreement between two people

Eg:
“You smell”

Question 25

Enjambent

Answer 25

Skipping to the next line of poetry eg: The night was a cold one.

Question 26

Irony

Answer 26

Saying to do something you are not

Question 27

Monolouge

Answer 27

A long speech by a single person

Question 28

Pathos

Answer 28

A quality that evokes pity/sadness eg: His ginger hair flopped on his face

Question 29

Rhyme

Answer 29

Repetition of a similar sound eg: I sat on the grass, and looked through the grass

Question 30

Rhythm

Answer 30

A repeated pattern of sound eg: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

Question 31

Caesura

Answer 31

A break between words within a metrical foot eg: Sing a song of sixpence//a pocket full of rye

Question 32

Symbolism

Answer 32

Using symbols to represent ideas / qualitys

Question 33

Semantic field

Answer 33

A set of related items eg: Clone trooper, Jedi, Sepratists, Republic

Question 34

Preposition

Answer 34

Group of words that combine with a noun / pro-noun eg: The house with the red door

Question 35

Article

Answer 35

A particular item / object eg: A car

Question 36

Declarative

Answer 36

A sentence in the form of a statement

Question 37

Exclamatory

Answer 37

An exclamatory sentenc expresses strong emotion and it ends with an exclamation marl

Question 38

Interrogative

Answer 38

A sentence in the form of a question

Question 39

Imperative

Answer 39

A sentence with a command