Language Features
What is the language feature that puts two contradictory terms together to emphasise the tone, describe a feeling eg.?
Oxymoron
What language feature compares two different things or concepts without using 'like' or 'as'?
Metaphor
What language feature describes the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
Alliteration
What does a hei-tiki pendent often symbolise in te ao Maori?
It gives the wearer protection
Who is the God of forests and birds in Maori culture?
Tane
What language feature describes the repetition of the 's' sound in a series of nearby words?
Sibilance
What language feature is an indirect reference to something else, for example a well-known story or a person/character?
Allusion
What is the language feature that means recurring images, words, ideas etc that is often a symbol?
Motif
Who established the peaceful village of Parihaka in Taranaki?
Te White O'Rongomai III and Tohu Kakahi
When was the Treaty of Waitangi signed?
February 6th, 1840
What is the language feature that literally describes the sound something sounds like?
Onomatopoeia
What is the language feature that repeats similar vowel sounds within closely connected words or phrases?
Assonance
What is the language feature in which the same consonant sound repeats within a group of words?
Consonance
Maui!
What does the Maori concept of turangawaewae refer to?
The place where your feet stands, the place where you belong and feel a connection to