KS3 Subject Terminology Quiz

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A verb is a doing word?

What can help us to identify a compound sentence, but not always?

What device is being used: 'the rain drops danced in the moonlight'

What device is being used: 'the girl was heartbroken by the devastation the storm had caused'

<p>What word class is 'bouncing'?</p>

Which is the verb: 'the overworked computer exploded in a sea of sparks'

The word 'catastophic' is what device?

An adverb describes a noun?

Name the device being used: 'she sells seashells on the sea shore.'

<p>What word class is 'faithful'?</p>

What device is being used: 'her heart was ice'

Emotive language makes the reader feel sad.

Which is the adverb: 'she walked uneasily into the classroom; she was late again!'

What device is being used: 'she swam like a dolphin'

He, She, We and They are examples of pronouns?

A metaphor says something is something else?

Which is a noun: 'Jemima sat with a duck on the grass'

What type of sentence is: 'Nathan and Jack like reading newspaper and novels.'

Have you revised subject terminology?

What type of sentence is: 'Miss Hansford, who loves shopping, walked past next.'

<p>What word class is 'quickly'?</p>

What word class is 'wise'?

Which is the adjective: 'She wore a beautiful dress'

<p>What word class is 'table'?</p>

What device is being used: 'the sand was as hot as the baker's oven'

Who, what, where, when and why are all openers for what type of sentence?

Which is a pronoun: 'He ate pizza like a pig'

<p>You can spot a simile by looking for the words 'like' or 'as'?</p>

'The wind danced through the trees' is what device?