KNOWING ENGLISH
Across
- 1. is a variety of a language that is spoken by a group in a particular area or of a social group or class.
- 2. Has no complete tought
- 6. is a word that links a noun, pronoun or gerund to other words.
- 9. is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds close together to create an effect similar to rhyming inside a line of poetry or in prose.
- 12. is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events and feelings.
- 13. is a word that connects words,phrases or clauses.
- 15. are groups of letters placed after a word to modify its meaning.
- 16. are groups of letters that can be placed before a word to modify its meaning.
- 17. Figure of speech which is an indirect reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, religion, mythology, politics, sport, science, pop culture, etc.
- 18. is overstatement or exaggerated figure of speech that distorts facts by making them much bigger than they are if looked at objectively.
Down
- 1. is an alphabetical list of words giving their definitions, examples and grammatical classification, together with information about the pronunciation.
- 3. A person's way he or she speaks, with differences in the sounds that can show the place a person comes from, or their social class.
- 4. figure of speech which uses words beginning with the same letter to achieve a poetical effect.
- 5. refer to an action
- 7. a word that substitutes a noun or noun phrase.
- 8. is the form of an adjective or adverb that shows which thing has that quality above or below the level of the others. It takes the definite article and short adjectives add -est and longer ones take 'most':
- 10. is a word that means the same as another word, or more or less the same.
- 11. modifies a noun.
- 14. usually occurs with 'To' (for example To go, To come, To wear etc.)