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An example of onomatopoeia is ....
Exciting
Zoom
Crash
Broom
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What is an adjective?
An action
A describing word
A word that has modified a verb
Words that sound like actions
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How can facts be important in texts?
They aren't really that important
They make the writer look good
They make the text look better
They provide evidence and back up the writer
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Which one of these examples is a simile?
The sun was as hot as fire
The sun burnt me like a candle
The sun was blisteringly hot
The sun blinded me with its brightness
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What is are abstract nouns?
A name of a person
Things you cannot touch like emotions -sadness, fear, jealousy, beauty etc
Objects like a table or chair
General things
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What is a Rhetorical Question?
A question
A question that doesn't need an answer.
A question that is not clear.
A question about the reader.
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What is an example of emotive language?
My heart felt like it had been ripped out of me
I was sad
I was happy.
I was absolutely heartbroken, destroyed and emotionless
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What is a proper noun?
The name of objects
The name of feelings and emotions
The name of people and places
The names of animals
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What is an example of a metaphor?
Everyone cheered loudly
The football stadium erupted with cheers
The football crowd roared like a lion
The crowd was ecstatic
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What is pathetic fallacy?
A writer who writes about petty things.
Where the text is spooky.
Where the text has a lot of action in it.
Where the weather reflects the mood the writer is creating.
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What is an example of a pronoun?
An object
You, me, he, she, they etc.
A describing word
A doing word
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What is Alliteration?
Sentence that is repeated
Two or more phrases beginning with the same letter
Words that sound the same
A question that doesn't need an answer
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What is an example of an imperative?
Please can you give an example
If you'd like you can give an example you can
You must give me an example now
Give me an example now
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What is a Verb?
Two or more words beginning with the same letter
A describing word
A action/doing word
A comparison of two things
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What is the rule of three?
A list of ideas supporting a main theme.
Three people sat next to you.
A maths formula.
A list of the writer's favourite thing.
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What does Emotive language do?
Nothing it's just sad writing.
Makes you feel a certain emotion.
Makes you cry.
Makes girls fall in love.
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What is hyperbole?
Something that is exaggerated or heightened for effect
Someone is constantly hyper
Something that is really upsetting to a reader
Something that doesn't make sense
