Language Features
Where a word or phrase is used to imply figurative resemblance, not a literal or 'actual' one.
Metaphor
Where a human quality is attributed to a thing or idea.
Personification
What is setting? And give an example of a setting.
A setting is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction.
Define a verb
A doing word
What is the largest country in South America?
Brazil
Where a phrase establishes similarity between two things - usually involve the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Creation of mood in a text, such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety, dissatisfaction, regret or anger.
Tone
What is conflict? And what effect does it have on the text?
The central problems of a text
Define a noun
a person, place, or thing
In a website browser address bar, what does “www” stand for?
World wide web
Where the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow.
Alliteration
Where words or ideas are used humorously or sarcastically, to imply the opposite of what they mean.
Irony
What is theme? And how does it influence a text?
A word that describes a verb
adverb
Who was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Margaret Thatcher
Exaggerating for a purpose.
Hyperbole
language used in speech with an informal meaning. Like slang
Colloquial language
What is a prose?
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that typically exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure
Basically a piece of writing
A word that describes a noun
adjective
Which five colours make up the Olympic rings?
blue, yellow, black, green and red.
Where two words normally not associated are brought together.
Oxymoron
An author/director hinting at what is to come
Foreshadowing
What is a protagonist and antagonist?
Give an example
protagonist - the main character in the story, usually the hero
antagonist - a character who stands in the way of the protagonist, usually the villain
the marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.
Punctuation
What does the AC button on a calculator stand for?
All clear