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Year 7 Language Features

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Alliteration?

a)

A word named after the sound it makes

b)

An extreme exaggeration

c)

Comparing two things using like or as

d)

The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word.

2.

What is personification?

a)

Giving a non-human thing, human qualities

b)

a word or phrase that isn't meant to be taken literally

c)

A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

d)

A word named after the sound it makes

3.

What is a Simile?

a)

The repetition of sound at the beginning of a series of words

b)

Comparing two things using like or as

c)

a word named after the sound it makes

d)

A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

4.

What is an Onomatopoeia?

a)

An extreme exaggeration

b)

A word named after the sound it makes

c)

Comparing two things using like or as

d)

The repetition of sound at the beginning of a series of words

5.

Hyperbole

a)

The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a series of words

b)

Giving a non-human thing, human qualities

c)

An extreme exaggeration

d)

A word named after the sound it makes

6.

What is a Metaphor?

a)

A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

b)

Comparing two things using like or as

c)

The correspondence of sounds at the end of words.

i.e. bee and see

d)

An extreme exaggeration

7.

What is Rhyme?

a)

A strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound

b)

The correspondence of sounds at the end of words.

i.e. bee and see

c)

A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

d)

The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a series of words

8.

What is rhythm?

a)

A strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound

b)

The correspondence of sounds at the end of words.

i.e. bee and see

c)

The repetition of sound at the beginning of a series of words

d)

a word or phrase that isn't meant to be take literally

9.

What rhyme scheme does the following poem follow?

Today I hurry off to school,

to work, learn and play.

We studied math and English and HPE.

What a happy day!

a)

a, b, c, b

b)

a, b, a, b

c)

a, b, c, c

d)

a, b, a, c

10.

What is an Idiom?

a)

A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

b)

a word or phrase that isn't meant to be taken literally

c)

a five line non-sense poem designed to make people laugh

d)

an eight line poem that follows a nonsensical formula

11.

What is Assonance?

a)

The repetition of a vowel sound at the end of a word

b)

The repetition of a sound at the start of the word

c)

The repetition of a vowel sound in the middle of the words

d)

The repetition of a word or phrase

12.

What is repetition?

a)

The repeating of a sound

b)

The repeating of a word or phrase

c)

The beat that adds rhythm to the poem

d)

The repetition of a sound at the start of the word