Year 7 Language Features

What is Alliteration?

• A word named after the sound it makes

• An extreme exaggeration

• Comparing two things using like or as

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

What is personification?

• Giving a non-human thing, human qualities

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

• A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

• A word named after the sound it makes

What is a Simile?

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

• Comparing two things using like or as

• a word named after the sound it makes

• A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

What is an Onomatopoeia?

• An extreme exaggeration

• A word named after the sound it makes

• Comparing two things using like or as

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

Hyperbole

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

• Giving a non-human thing, human qualities

• An extreme exaggeration

• A word named after the sound it makes

What is a Metaphor?

• A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

• Comparing two things using like or as

• The correspondence of sounds at the end of words.

  i.e. bee and see

• An extreme exaggeration

What is Rhyme?

• A strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound

• The correspondence of sounds at the end of words.

  i.e. bee and see

• A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

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

What is rhythm?

• A strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound

• The correspondence of sounds at the end of words.

  i.e. bee and see

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

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

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, b, c, b

• a, b, a, b

• a, b, c, c

• a, b, a, c

What is an Idiom?

• A thing that is represented or symbolic of something else

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

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

• an eight line poem that follows a nonsensical formula