Year 9 English - Week 4 Homework

Match the word with its correct definition.

• Bias

• A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

• Personification

• A humorous play on words

• Benevolent

• Well-meaning and kindly

• Pun

• A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to non-human things

Match the word with its correct definition.

• Dark or dull in colour or tone; gloomy

• Implies

• expression that has a figurative meaning

• Purpose

• 
  To suggest or indicate something

• Idiom

• The reason for which something is done

• Somber

Find a synonym for the word "Purpose".

• Aim

• Joke

• Sadness

• Bias

Find a synonym for the word "Idiom".

• Expression

• Purpose

• Benevolent

• Somber

Find a synonym for the word "Implies".

• Suggests

• Laughs

• Mourns

• Judges

Find a synonym for the word "Personification".

• Embodiment

• Joke

• Aim

• Bias

Find a synonym for the word "Pun".

• Joke

• Aim

• Sadness

• Bias

Find a synonym for the word "Somber".

• Gloomy

• Happy

• Benevolent

• Frivolous

Find a synonym for the word "Benevolent".

• Kind

• Sad

• Frivolous

• Condescending

Find a synonym for the word "Bias".

• Prejudice

• Aim

• Benevolent

• Somber