Descriptive Techniques

Question 1

What is the technical word for a person, place, thing or idea?

Accepted Answer

Noun

Question 2

What is an clause?

Accepted Answer

A simple sentence., A group of words that includes a subject and a verb.

Question 3

What is the technical word for a describing word?

Accepted Answer

Adjective

Question 4

What is a hyperbole?

Accepted Answer

An extreme exaggeration

Question 5

It can be used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.

Accepted Answer

Colon

Question 6

What is a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

A comparison between two things not usually related.

Question 7

What is personification?

Accepted Answer

Giving an object human qualities, Giving an animal human qualities

Question 8

What is a word that takes place of the noun?

Accepted Answer

Pronoun

Question 9

Furthermore, however, therefore are all examples of what?

Accepted Answer

Connectives, Sentence openers

Question 10

It can be used between two closely related independent clauses, that has no conjunction.

Accepted Answer

Semi-colon

Question 11

What is a simile?

Accepted Answer

A comparison using the words 'like' and 'as'

Question 12

Look, sound, feel ______ and smell.

Accepted Answer

Taste

Question 13

Shows that you have stopped in the middle of what you were writing, leaving the reader to guess

Accepted Answer

Ellipsis

Question 14

What is alliteration?

Accepted Answer

repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of words

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