stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Literary techniques and devices - the basics Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Literary techniques and devices - the basics
What is a preposition?
What is a simile?
Literary techniques and devices - the basics
19 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
137 plays
Imported from external platform
Flashcards
19 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
19
Answers
1
What is a simile?
Describing something as something else
Comparing something to another using 'like' or 'as'
Comparing two things
Saying something is something else
2
What is a preposition?
Words to describe
Words to inform
Words to explain
Words that show direction, time or position
3
What is a metaphor?
When a word creates the sound it describes
Giving an object human qualities
Directly comparing something to something else, by saying it is
Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
4
What is a verb?
A describing word
A doing word
An object
A movement
5
What is sibilance?
Repetition of the 's' sound
Repetition of the same letter
Repetition of the 't' sound
Repetition
6
What is onomatopoeia?
When a word represents the smell it describes
When a word represents the taste it describes
When a word represents the sounds it describes
A really long word
7
What is an adverb?
A doing word
A word that describes a verb
A word that describes a noun
A place
8
What is emotive language?
Using a simile
Using exciting words
Making your reader cry
using words to evoke an emotion from the readers
9
Which are examples of adverbs?
Lazily
Healthy,
Merry
Quickly
10
What is a compound sentence?
A hard sentence
Two simple sentences joined together
Two clauses joined by a conjunction
A long sentence
11
Which is an example of an adjective?
Quickly
Red
A mouse
Fast
12
What is hyperbole?
Not sure
Exaggeration for effect
Lying for effect
Repetition for effect
13
What is zoomorphism?
Giving something animal qualities
Giving something sea creature qualities
Giving something qualities
Giving something human qualities
14
What is a complex sentence?
A difficult sentence
I don't know
A long sentence
A sentence with one main clause and one dependent clause
15
What is personification?
When a human is given animal features
When an object is described to be like a human
When an animal is described to be like a human
When a human is descriped to be like an object
16
What is alliteration?
When two or more words are repeated
When two or more words end the same way
When two or more words start with the same letter or sound
When two or more words start with the letter 'a'
17
What is an adjective?
A doing word.
A describing word.
A thing.
A place.
18
What is a simple sentence?
A sentence that is not complicated
A short sentence
A sentence that contains a subject and object
A sentence which is one clause only
19
Which are examples of prepositions?
Later
Under
Via
Next to
