As cold as ice is an example of what language technique?
  • metaphor
  • alliteration
  • simile
  • personification
'Sarah is a dragon when she's angry', is an example of what language technique?
  • personification
  • metaphor
  • direct address
Alliteration is when two or more of the words in a sentence...
  • Rhyme
  • Have the same number of letters
  • Start with the same word or sound
  • are anagrams of each other
when writing descriptively, you should use all of your what?
  • words
  • thoughts
  • senses
  • brain power
Using your words to help the reader create a picture in their minds
  • Imagery
  • Sibilance
  • Repetition
  • Onomatopoeia
Comparing two things using like or as
  • Repetition
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Anaphora
Comparing two things by saying one thing is the other thing
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Repetition
  • Alliteration
Extreme exaggeration
  • Alliteration
  • Sibilance
  • Anaphora
  • Hyperbole
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
  • Capitalism
  • Repetition
  • Socialism
  • Symbolism
The same letter or sound at the beginning of words close together
  • Alliteration
  • Anaphora
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Personification
The repeated use of an s or s sound (clue: creates an almost hissing sound)
  • Personification
  • Anaphora
  • Sibilance
  • Caesura
When the weather is used to reflect the mood or tone
  • Personification
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Pathetic fallacy
A word that sounds like what it is describing
  • Personification
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Sibilance
  • Emotive language
Words and phrases are used more than once for impact
  • Repetition
  • Adjective
  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
Giving human characteristics to something non-human
  • Animating
  • Alliteration
  • Personification
  • Power words
Questions that make the reader think but do not require an answer
  • Thinking questions
  • Topic sentences
  • Statements
  • Rhetorical questions
Using numbers as evidence e.g. 58% of students scored more than 10 on the quiz.
  • Information
  • Expert opinion
  • Statistic
  • Statement
Using words to make the reader feel sad, angry, happy etc.
  • Emotive language
  • Statistic
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
Using personal stories to illustrate your point of make yourself seem involved in the topic.
  • Rhetorical questions
  • Anecdotes
  • Similes
  • Emotive language
Statistics
  • Numerical information about something
  • Measurements of characters
  • Information produced by the Department of Trade
  • Government secrets
Opinions
  • Reliable information
  • A play on words
  • A person's own view
  • A recreation of the past
Facts
  • A phrase that contains an instruction
  • Information about something
  • A person's own opinion
  • An unreliable source
Emotive language is:
  • Language aimed at the reader's feelings rather than their thinking
  • Writing that includes emoticons
  • A person's own view
  • Exaggeration
A rhetorical question is:
  • A question that does not require an answer
  • A question which contains a command
  • A person's own view
  • A question which always comes at the end of an article
An imperative is:
  • A member of the Russian royal family
  • A command or an instruction
  • A fact which is exaggerated
  • A technique used by writers to introduce a topic
Hyperbole is:
  • A type of verb
  • When you become over-active
  • Exaggeration
  • Words that create pictures in the mind
Alliteration is when:
  • There is a list of three
  • There is a series of vowels which sound the same
  • A series of words begins with the same letter
  • A person describes their true feelings
A simile
  • Encourages you to feel happy
  • Indicates a break in a line
  • Is a word that contains the sound it describes
  • A comparison of one thing to another using 'like' or 'as.'
Repetition
  • An idea, word, phrase, theme or concept appearing again and again
  • A list of three
  • A play on words
  • The titles in a series of books by the same author
Personification
  • When a writer pushes his own view
  • When the weather reflects the mood in a piece of writing
  • When an inanimate object is given human qualities
  • When a character's name appears in the title
Pun
  • A play on words eg 'Patch stretched and thought to himself 'it's a dog's life'
  • Words that create pictures in the mind
  • A personal viewpoint
  • Comparing one thing to another by saying it is that thing
Imagery
  • The illustrations in a book
  • Language which relies on the reader having a strong imagination
  • Combining science and literature
  • Words that create pictures in the mind
Metaphor
  • The number of syllables in a word
  • When life imitates art
  • Comparing one thing to another saying it is that thing
  • Linking suffering and joy in the same piece of writing
Triples
  • Three babies born at the same time
  • An article containing three paragraphs only
  • A three syllable word
  • A persuasive list of three
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