Language Techniques
What language technique is used in the following:
The meat was as tough as old boots.
Simile
What language technique is used in the following:
The waves kissed the sand.
Personification
What part of speech is the word country in the sentence:
We bought a house in the country.
noun
Kiev is the capital city of which country?
Ukraine
What name is given to words that describe HOW someone does something?
Adverb
What language technique is used in the following:
The waves foamed like bubble bath.
Simile
What language technique is used in the following:
Fireflies flitted through the forest.
Alliteration
What part of speech is the word delicious in the sentence:
I ate a delicious peach.
Adjective
In Disney's The Jungle Book, what is King Louie's greatest desire?
To obtain fire
What do we call the technique where an object or colour etc us used to represent an idea?
Symbolism
What language technique is used in the following:
The machine buzzed and whirred.
Onomatopoeia
What language technique is used in the following:
I nearly died laughing.
Hyperbole
What part of speech is the word decided in the sentence:
My friends and I decided to go to the movies.
verb
Who is the Roman god of fire?
Vulcan
What punctuation mark is used to show possession or missing letters?
apostrophe
What language technique is used in the following:
The velvet sky was studded with stars.
Metaphor
What language technique is used in the following:
The moon grew huge as it rose above the roof.
Assonance
What part of speech is the word "she" in the sentence:
My sister was thrilled because she got top marks in the test.
Pronoun
What is vexillology the study of?
Flags
A group of letters attached to the end of a base word to make a new word or form of the word.
suffix
What language technique is used in the following:
Leaving town was a bitter sweet experience.
Oxymoron
What language technique is used in the following:
The old horse had finally gone to the great big paddock in the sky.
Euphemism
What part of speech is the word calmly in the following sentence:
The hiker backed calmly away from the bear.
Adverb
What country has the world's shortest coastline?
Monaco
What do we call the punctuation mark that is made up of 2 dots one above the other?
:
colon