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Language Features quiz for NCEA Unfamiliar Texts. #languagefeatures
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Tone is ...
the sound created by a poem.
another word for rhyming.
the attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
the effect of onomatopoeia.
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Conflict
is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces, usually a
a man and a woman
a superhero and a villian
a protagonist and an antagonist
a mollusk and a vertebrate
3
Words or groups of words that describe by using the five senses.
Imagery
Adjectives
Sensory
Olfactory
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The repetition of
vowel sounds
in a group of words close together.
Renaissance
Dissonance
Consonance
Assonance
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A command or instruction is called ...
Imperative
Noun
Dialogue
Juxtaposition
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I felt like I knew more language techniques today then last week.
True
False
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Words whose sound resembles the actual sound they represent.
Onomatopoeia
Contrast
Litotes
Allusion
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Another term that can be used in the place of 'Slang'?
Litotes
Colloquial Language
Simile
Rhyme
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Language used to manipulate the way an audience feels.
Jargon
Tone
Mood
Emotive language
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Name that language feature: "An orchard silvery and green as a sunlit breaking sea."
Metaphor
Simile
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
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An adjective that indicates the highest degree of something.
Superlative
Exaggeration
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Hyperbole
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The emotional meaning or mood of a word or phrase. Often positive or negative.
Intonation
Tone
Connotation
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Assonance
Colloquial language
Parlance
Sibilance
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Words that are specific to a certain topic or field
Official
Colloquial
Jargon
Slang
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"The run down house appeared depressed." This is an example of...
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
Pun
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A play on words based on a word that has one sound but two meanings.
Connotation
Pun
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
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An indirect reference to a well-known person, story, idea, event.
Simile
Allusion
Litotes
Anecdote
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"Baby you're a firework" is an example of which language feature?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Superlative
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Another name for a verse?
Stanza
Chorus
Enjambment
Paragraph
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The feeling of a piece of writing.
Rhythm
Mood
Bias
Connotation
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The person who tells the story.
Author
Narrator
First Person
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Name that language feature: "The sinking sun looked like a ball of fire."
Simile
Metaphor
Symbolism
Synecdoche
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Clues that hint at important plot development that are to follow in a story or drama.
Mystery
Suspense
Forethought
Foreshadowing
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Hyperbole is ...
An understatement.
A word that sounds like what it is.
An over-exaggeration.
An extended bole.
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What's it called when a writer asks the reader a question?
Consonance
Simile
Rhetorical question
Personal pronouns
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Name this language feature: "The road was a ribbon stretching across the desert."
Alliteration
Metaphor
Imperative
Simile
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A figure of speech in which a part of something refers to the whole of something. For example: He's got some new wheels.
Noun
Litotes
Synecdoche
Aggregate
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The use of personal pronouns ...
makes the reader identify with the writer.
alienates the reader.
creeps me out.
can be used to draw the reader into the text.
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What is an 'Adjective'?
"Describing" word.
"Naming" word.
"Doing" word.
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Adjectives that indicate the highest degree of something.
Swagjectives
Superlative
Super adjectives
Antithesis
