Year 7 Key Terms - Part 1

"Beautiful baby boy" is an example of what?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Connotation

• Imperative Verb

Answer explanation

Alliteration is when the first letter of a word is repeated more than once.

What is an anecdote?

• Saying something is something else.

• Using opposites together to describe something.

• A short story from personal experience.

• Giving non-human objects human characteristics.

Answer explanation

I had the worst day yesterday and it all started when I missed the bus to school and had to wait outside in the rain.

What is the purpose of imperative verbs?

• They show feelings.

• They explain how something has been done.

• They describe something.

• They tell you to do something.

Answer explanation

Imperative verbs are often used to give instructions.

For example: "Stop!" "Go!" "Step back!" "Put the cake in the oven."

What technique has been used in this headline?

"Deadly wildfires in Australia have destroyed the homes of innocent koalas."

• Emotive Language

• Conjunction

• Rhetorical Question

• Five Senses

Answer explanation

Emotive language is when we use powerful describing words.

What is meant by the word 'connotation'?

• A question that doesn't need an answer.

• Words used to join clauses together.

• The words, images or feelings with associate with certain words.

• Words that sound like what they are.

Answer explanation

The word war has negative connotations of violence.

What language device is this an example of: "As pretty as a picture"?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Simile

Answer explanation

When something is described as being like something else.

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• Walking dead

• The stunning shining stars.

• Her lips were a red red rose.

• The fluffy, fleecy pillow.

Answer explanation

A metaphor is when something is describe

as being something else.

Band, clap, thud are all examples of what technique?

• Five senses

• Onomatopoeia

• Exclamatory sentence

• Dialogue

"Bitter sweet" and "deafening silence" are examples of what technique?

• Oxymoron

• Bigmoron

• Smallmoron

• Onomatopoeia

Answer explanation

Using opposites together to describe something.  

What does personification do?

• Gives animal characteristics to humans.

• Gives human characteristics to non-humans.

• Describes humans as being like something else.

• Describes humans as being something else.

Answer explanation

For example: 'the angry sea' or 'the dancing trees.'