WorksheetsLanguage Techniques
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Emotive language is:
a)
Language aimed at the reader's feelings rather than their thinking
b)
Writing that includes emoticons
c)
A person's own view
d)
Exaggeration
2.
A rhetorical question is:
a)
A question that does not require an answer
b)
A question which contains a command
c)
A person's own view
d)
A question which always comes at the end of an article
3.
An imperative is:
a)
A member of the Russian royal family
b)
A command or an instruction
c)
A fact which is exaggerated
d)
A technique used by writers to introduce a topic
4.
Hyperbole is:
a)
A type of verb
b)
When you become over-active
c)
Exaggeration
d)
Words that create pictures in the mind
5.
Alliteration is when:
a)
There is a list of three
b)
There is a series of vowels which sound the same
c)
A series of words begins with the same letter
d)
A person describes their true feelings
6.
A simile
a)
Encourages you to feel happy
b)
Indicates a break in a line
c)
Is a word that contains the sound it describes
d)
A comparison of one thing to another using 'like' or 'as.'
7.
Repetition
a)
An idea, word, phrase, theme or concept appearing again and again
b)
A list of three
c)
A play on words
d)
The titles in a series of books by the same author
8.
Personification
a)
When a writer pushes his own view
b)
When the weather reflects the mood in a piece of writing
c)
When an inanimate object is given human qualities
d)
When a character's name appears in the title
9.
Pun
a)
A play on words eg 'Patch stretched and thought to himself 'it's a dog's life'
b)
Words that create pictures in the mind
c)
A personal viewpoint
d)
Comparing one thing to another by saying it is that thing
10.
Imagery
a)
The illustrations in a book
b)
Language which relies on the reader having a strong imagination
c)
Combining science and literature
d)
Words that create pictures in the mind
11.
Metaphor
a)
The number of syllables in a word
b)
When life imitates art
c)
Comparing one thing to another saying it is that thing
d)
Linking suffering and joy in the same piece of writing
12.
Facts
a)
A phrase that contains an instruction
b)
Information about something
c)
A person's own opinion
d)
An unreliable source
13.
Statistics
a)
Numerical information about something
b)
Measurements of characters
c)
Information produced by the Department of Trade
d)
Government secrets
14.
Opinions
a)
Reliable information
b)
A play on words
c)
A person's own view
d)
A recreation of the past
15.
Triples
a)
Three babies born at the same time
b)
An article containing three paragraphs only
c)
A three syllable word
d)
A persuasive list of three
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