Language techniques - Fiction

Which is an example of personification?

• The mouse ate a mountain of cheese.

• Hedgehogs should share the hedge!

• My Mini thinks it's a Ferrari.

• It was a dark, depressing place, full of damp corners.

What do you call it when words imitate the sound they describe?

Clue: ono.........

Which is an example of a rhetorical question?

• The best book in the world.

• He ran - for his life!

• How could they have followed us?

• She watched the monster eat and eat and eat ...

Which is an example of a simile?

• The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

• Her smile was as bright as the sun.

• The wind whispered through the trees.

• The thunder grumbled like an old man.

Which is an example of an oxymoron?

• Jumbo shrimp

• As brave as a lion

• Time flies

• Her heart was a cold iron

The aroma of spice curled through the air.

What language feature is this?

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• He is a shining star.

• As busy as a bee.

• The car roared to life.

• She sings like an angel.

Which is an example of alliteration?

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• The cat's out of the bag.

• He has a heart of gold.

• Time is money.

Which of these sentences contain an adjective and an adverb

• For him, life was not worth living.

• The tower loomed over the town.

• She charged ferociously into the pitch-black room.

• We all feel that, surely you can see.

What do you think of when you think of funfairs?