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Punctuation
'brave, busy, clean, beautiful, bright' Are all examples of what?
Adjectives
'dog, house, Mr. Smith, London, love' Are all examples of what?
Nouns
'run, eat, sleep, throw, sing' Are all examples of what?
Verbs
'nicely, roughly, scarily, smoothly, shyly' Are all examples of what?
Adverbs
A direct comparison between two things
Metaphor
The time and place a story/ narrative occurs
Setting
What are the missing words from the extract below?
Mix some hot _______, cool ________, Dominicans...
Chileans, Jamaicans
A comparison made with 'like' or 'as'
Simile
The repetition of the same letter/ sound at the beginning of words that are close together
Alliteration
What is the missing word from the extract below?
Comes back to sands Of a grey metallic soar To surge of ________
wheels
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
A word which imitates a sound
Onomatopoeia
The beat in a poem
Rhythm
The description of an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person
Personification
A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length
Couplet
A grouping of lines separated from others in a poem (a 'paragraph')
Stanza
An interruption of action to present events that took place at an earlier time
Flashback
A topic/ message that an author wants to share/ discuss through their work (abstract noun)
Theme
What is the missing word from the extract below?
And let them settle, Then _________ them with Roman conquerors.
overrun
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line (HINT: M _ _ _ R)
Meter
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
What is the missing word from the extract below?
And Island man wakes up To the sound of blue ______
surf
The repetition of consonants in quick succession (similar to assonance)
Consonance
The same word, phrase, or line repeated several times (HINT: R _ F _ _ _N)
Refrain