'Sound' devices
Story elements
Comparisons
other features
Examples to ID
100
Using a word or phrase more than once. Eg: "Money, Money, Money"
Repetition
100
Another word for story.
Narrative
100
A comparison between two different things, using the words 'like' or 'as'. "School is like a prison."
Simile
100
What are describing words? Give 3 examples.
Adjectives.
100
She floated in like a cloud.
Simile
200
Repetition of consonant sounds. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." "Black Betty, bambalam"
Alliteration
200
Where and when the story takes place.
The setting
200
A figure of speech involving exaggeration. "There was a mountain of paperwork on the desk."
Hyperbole
200
Using descriptive language to create a picture in the readers mind.
imagery
200
"It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!" (Slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners)
Assonance
300
Repetition of vowel sounds. "How now, brown cow"
Assonance
300
The people in the story.
The characters.
300
A comparison in which one thing is said to be another. i.e. The cat's eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness.
What is metaphor?
300
Giving human qualities to animals or objects. i.e. "The daffodils nodded their yellow heads."
What is an example of personification?
300
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is an example of personification?
400
A word which sounds like its meaning." "bang, whisper, buzz, shout, kookaburra"
Onomatopoeia
400
The highest point of action in a story or drama.
The climax.
400
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. "The daisies danced in the breeze"
Personification
400
The collective noun for ants is?
What is an example of pun?
400
Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio, stabbed and is dying says "tomorow you will find me a grave man" meaning grave in the ground and grave as a bad mistake.
A pun
500
The repetition of the 's' sound. "Sneaky Steve snaked his way silently to the sandpit."
Sibilance
500
The concluding action or events in a novel
Resolution
500
An extended comparison of two things that is continued throughout a piece of work, or in more than one line of poetry. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." ("As You Like It," Shakespeare)
Extended metaphor.
500
A joining word.
A conjunction.
500
Didgeridoo. Hullabaloo. Pop Bang Whizz And you have to spell it correctly!
onomatopoeia
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