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1
Onomatopoeia is...
The use of words to imitate sounds e.g. 'bang', 'crash', or 'crackle'
A type of rhyming pattern
The repetition of similar vowel sounds
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
2
Which word is the adverb?
Quicker
Quickly
Quickest
Quick
3
Which of these is not one of the five senses?
Sight
Suspicion
Sound
Smell
4
An example of pathetic fallacy would be: 'Storm clouds gathered with a distant rumble of thunder as his rage grew.'
False
True
5
Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to something non-human. Which of these is not an example?
The rain fell heavily.
The storm clouds gathered threateningly.
The sun glared down on parched and barren desert.
The moon peeped out from behind the clouds.
6
Which sentence contains a metaphor?
He was like a bull in a china shop.
The bull crashed through the china shop.
The bull bellowed and butted in the china shop.
He was a bull in a china shop.
7
Which is the example of alliteration?
mahogany-brown, cracked, leather sofa
like an audience perparing to watch a premiere
marvellous, mysterious object
they perched expectantly
8
Similes and Metaphors are the same thing.
False
True