Language Techniques/Word classes

Which of the following is an example of direct address?

• Only you can save us

• 75% use their mobile phones for 8 hours a day

• She turned as white as a ghost

• Life is a roller coaster

What is a hyperbole?

• Words beginning with the same letter

• Extreme Exaggeration

• A question that does need to be answered

• A phrase that has a different meaning that the individual words

Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

• Pepperoni pizza is perfect

• She wanted to pet the puppy

• Zoom, crash, clang

• I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse

"Bent double, like old beggars" is an example of which language technique?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Simile

"A word used to describe nouns" is the definition of which word class?

• Adverb

• Possessive pronoun

• Adjective

• Preposition

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• I am freezing to death

• She grew as tall as a house

• I've a million things to do

• Reduce, reuse, recyle

What is direct address?

• Comparing something using like or as

• Something written to make the reader laugh

• Words beginning with the same letter or sound

• When the writer speaks directly to the reader using the words "you, we, us."

The attribution of a human characteristic to a non-human object is the definition of which language technique?

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

What type of language technique is "Furthermore,"

• Simile

• Adjective

• Discourse marker

• Pronoun

The same letter or sound at the start of adjacent or closely connected words, is the definition of which language technique?

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Adverb

• Personification