Language Features
Across
- 1. The use of a term or name for the person spoken to, as in securing the attention of that person. Also talking directly to an audience.
- 3. The repetition of the same consonant sounds
- 4. A question that doesn’t need an answer
- 5. A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
- 7. Two things are compared using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’
- 9. Rule of three Three adjectives in a row
- 10. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence,
- 12. a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things
- 14. Using the weather to describe the mood
- 16. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings."the Railway Society reception was an informal party of people of all stations (excuse the pun) in life"
- 17. Something that is true.
- 18. Using numbers to back up your point e.g. 25% of people who took the survey agreed
- 19. Two things that are compared, usually saying the other thing is something
- 21. Something that someone thinks
- 22. Words that sound like they are spelt e.g. bang, crash. pop
- 23. Words that have negative connections to other words or things.
Down
- 2. Words that make you feel something
- 4. Words or phrases that are repeated.
- 6. Giving something inanimate or non-human the qualities of humans
- 8. Hinting that something will happen later in the text.
- 11. Making something bigger than it is
- 13. An instruction e.g. Your country needs you.
- 15. Words that have positive connections to other words or things.
- 20. A word used to describe