Language Devices

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Quiz on Language Devices, created by Susannah Close on 29/01/2015.
Susannah Close
Quiz by Susannah Close, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor.
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  • Heart of gold.
  • As good as gold.

Question 2

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Personification involves:
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  • giving human characteristics to animals and inanimate objects.
  • giving humans animal characteristics.

Question 3

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How now brown cow is an example of sibilance.
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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Which isn't a metaphor?
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  • Nice weather for ducks.
  • Submarine arcade.
  • my heart leapt...
  • he threw away his legs.

Question 5

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Select the adjectives:
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  • terrible
  • Beautiful
  • Dog
  • tenderly
  • sparkly
  • Prince William

Question 6

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Anecdotes help to make your writing persuasive because they allow your reader to understand and empathise with a situation.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 7

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Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
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  • Dogs like to chase cats.
  • A smiling cloud.
  • Don't procrastinate now, put it off!
  • If I've told you once I've told you a million times.

Question 8

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Identify the compound sentences.
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  • The rat ate cheese.
  • John likes to eat cake and watch Eastenders.
  • Because the human had gone out, the cat, John, licked his lips and looked at his prey; he was going to have to fend for himself tonight.
  • Graham didn't like sausages, because he was a vegetarian.

Question 9

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'To dive, to leave, to survive' is an example of personification.
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  • True
  • False

Question 10

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Discussion between 2 or more people is called:
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  • Monologue
  • Dialogue
  • Soliloquy

Question 11

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Which of the following are oxymorons:
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  • Deafening silence
  • Pretty ugly
  • Random Order
  • Awfully luck
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