Vocabulary
To spread a good smell around an area (hint: what kind of substances do people use to make things smell good?)
Perfumed?
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
What is a simile?
Add an adverb in the blank: the ______ exotic storehouse
Fascinatingly?
Why do travel advertisements evoke all 5 senses when describing?
For a complete atmospheric effect
The protagonist of Text 8F (the hidden storehouse story)
Who is Nicholas?
Nicholas's aunt cried in shrill ________
She just did a vociferation?
Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one grey wetness
Hyperbole?
The mountain is ______ over the city.
The city is ________ by the mountain.
Fill in the 2 blanks with the appropriate verbs.
This device is used to make the message stronger and easy to remember
The name of Okonkwo's sons
Who is Nwoye and Ikemefuna?
Authentic?
Yams stood for manliness
Metaphor/symbolism?
Complete the sentence using an intensifier to fill in the blank: he has ____ this moment arrived
just?
This literary device is often used to evoke a romantic, old world feeling to a place
What is the effect of archaic vocabulary?
The Great Karoo is located in the country of ______
Where is South Africa?
An adjective that describes something ideal and peaceful
Idyllic?
He's got the big bad booboo
What is an example of an alliteration?
I have never seen anything _____ like this before. Add an intensifier in the blank.
Quite?
The reason why cliches are often used in travel advertisements
To give the idea of familiarity
Easy peasy lemon squeezy
What is a consonance?
An adjective that describes something attractively unusual or old-fashioned.
What is quaint?
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
What is an example of assonance?
Present participle adjective
The type of words that convey the idea of endless opportunities for enjoyment
What are the effects of non-sentences, simple sentences, or sentences beginning with And, So, and Or?
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing
What is a metonymy?