House English Year 7 & 8

What is an adjective?

• A word that describes a noun or pronoun.

• A word that describes an action or idea.

• A word that describes an adverb.

• A word that always comes at the end of a sentence.

What is a verb?

• A word that tells the reader more about something.

• A word that describes a noun.

• A word that describes an action, condition or experience

• A word that completes a sentence.

What is a preposition?

• A group of words that contains a subject and a verb which makes complete sense on its own.

• A word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else.

• A word that describes a noun or pronoun

• A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

What is a conjunction?

• A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

• A word used to make a main clause an embedded clause.

• A word that describes or gives more informaton.

• A figure of speech.

What is a main clause?

• A group of words with a subject and a verb. It does not express a complete thought so it is not a sentence and can't stand alone.

• The biggest part of the sentence.

• A figure of speech, much like a simile.

• A group of words that contains a subject and a verb which makes complete sense on its own.

What is a dependent clause?

• A sentence that makes sense on its own.

• A describing word with a number of different definitions.

• A group of words with a subject and a verb. It does not express a complete thought so it is not a sentence and can't stand alone.

• A group of words with an adverb and a noun that makes sense on its own.

'The mountains towered over me, like a bunch of school bullies with their hands on their hips.'

This is an example of...

• Hyperbole and enjambment.

• Simile and personification.

• Personification and oxymoron.

• Personification and enjambment.

'The road was a ribbon of moonlight, looping the purple moor'

This is an example of a...

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Personification

What is personification?

• The act of pretending you are human when you describe something.

• The act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human.

• The act of giving human characteristics to humans.

• It is when you describe something in a way that makes it seem more easy to imagine than it is.

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• The air made the weary fairy lairy.

• The daffodils danced with delight in the warm summer breeze.

• The lost child desperately searched for her tiny puppy.

• All of us are travellers lost, our tickets arranged at a cost.