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Language Features
English practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Simile | Comparing one thing to another using “like” or “as”. |
| Metaphor | Comparing one thing to another without using “like” or “as”; instead, one thing is another thing. |
| Personification | Giving human attributes or qualities to a non-living object |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words – usually close in succession. e.g. clam cat company |
| Assonance | Repetition of the same vowel sound in close succession. |
| Imperative | A command. |
| Rhetorical question | A question designed to make a point or have a dramatic effect rather than to get an answer. |
| Facts and figures | Information or statistics. |
| Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration. |
| Comparative adjectives | An adjective that compares one thing with another. |
| Superlative adjectives | An adjective that describes something as being the most extreme. |
| Emotive language | Choice of words which have specifically intended emotional effects or are intended to evoke an emotional response in the reader |
| First and second person pronouns | 1st person singular = I, me, my, mine, plural = We, us, our, ours 2nd person singular and plural = You, your, yours |
| Clusters of three | Creating patterns of three. |
| Jargon | Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand. |
| Listing | When examples or reasons are presented one after another. |
| Anecdote | Telling a story either from your own experience or someone else’s. |
| Sibilance | Repetition of “s” sounds. |
| Rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |
| Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. |
| Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that sounds like its meaning. |
| Verb | a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen. |
| Double entendre | A word or phrase open to two interpretations |
| Connotation | Makes your writing sound professional. |
| Idiom | Saying something is something else, but it sounds weird. |
| Types of sentences | compound, complex, simple, minor, Compound + complex |
| Minor | verb |
| Simple | no Commer (independent clause) |
| Compound | two sentences put together s + s |
| Complex | dependent and independent clause, must have a commer. |
| Compound + complex | Two or more independent clauses |
| noun | A word that describes a place, person thing, animal, quality, idea or action e.g dog, office or tree |
| Verb | A verb is a word that shows action or a state of being e.g running or walking. |
| Adverb | A word that describes a verb. Can often end in ly e.g slowly or quietly. |
| Preposition | A location time, direction, location e.g today |
| Adjective | A word that describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun e.g sweet or red, |
| colloquial language | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary |
| Minor sentence | what time are you leaving? |
| Simple | I want to go home. |
| Compound | I have a dog, and she has a cat. |
| Complex | Even though she already had breakfast, my dog was still hungry. |
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