Gives extra information about verbs and adjectives.

What is a 'concrete noun'?

Names something you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell.

Uses words "like" or "as" to compare two things.

What is an 'action verb'?

Expresses the action that the subject is, was or will do.

Makes a connection between two things by comparing them.

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What is an 'adverb'?
Gives extra information about verbs and adjectives.
Another type of doing word (type of verb).
A naming word.
A word that stands in place of a noun.
2
The armed robber was running away.
Action verb
Linking verb
Helping verb
3
What is a 'concrete noun'?
Names something you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell.
Names a collection of things or a group.
Names feelings or ideas.
4
Which are adverbs? The young child quickly followed his parents into the room and sat down.
Down, followed, sat.
Followed, sat.
child, parents, room
quickly, down
5
What is an adjective?
Doing words
Naming words
Describing words
People's names
6
A simile...?
Is a question that doesn't need an answer.
Makes a connection between two things by comparing them.
Is a common phrase.
Uses words "like" or "as" to compare two things.
7
The dance was a difficult one.
Linking verb
Action verb
Helping verb
8
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." Is an example of what technique?
Cliche
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
9
What is an 'abstract noun'?
Names a collection of things or a group.
Names feelings or ideas.
Names something you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell.
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What is a verb?
Describing words
People's actions, such as running and jumping.
Doing words
Naming words
11
"I move fast like a cheetah." Is an example of a?
Adjective
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
12
Which words are verbs? The young child quickly followed his parents into the room and sat down.
young, quickly, child
Followed, sat.
child, parents, room
Down, followed, sat.
13
When we talk about the 'tenor', of someone's speech we are talking about the...?
Tone
Voice
Number of words they use.
Vocabulary
14
Which words are nouns? The young child quickly followed his parents into the room and sat down.
child, parents, room
the, child, sat.
young, quickly, child
Down, parents, followed.
15
"The sky was full of dancing stars." Is an example of which language technique?
Adjective
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
16
What is a pronoun?
A word that describes a noun.
A word that adds onto a noun.
A word that replaces a noun.
Another name for an adjective.
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What is a noun?
People's names
Naming words
Doing words
Describing words
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What is an 'action verb'?
Are the same as linking verbs.
Join with other words to form a verb phrase.
Expresses the action that the subject is, was or will do.
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A metaphor...?
Uses words "like" or "as" to compare two things.
Is a question that doesn't need an answer.
Makes a connection between two things by comparing them.
Is a common phrase.
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"Her head was spinning from all the new information." Is an example of?
Simile
Descriptive language
Metaphor
Personification

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