Language Features
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How quickly can you identify the different language features from either the description or from an example.
Topics of this game:
- This is the repetition of letter sound at the start of a word.
- This is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
- This is a word that compares two things, the comparison is usually made by stating something is something else.
- This is a word that compares two similar things, as being like or as something else.
- This includes informal (or casual) words that are made up and used by cultural groups.
- This helps the audience think about what has been written and may be so obvious that no answer is required.
- When something non-human or even something that is not alive; is doing something only humans can do.
- This is when adjectives or adverbs are used that relate to or refer to emotions.
- A group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own
- A doing or state of being word.
- A describing word. Sometimes there are three together to make it more effective and it adds emphasis to a point that is being made.
- A word describing how something is done.
- This is used to overstate ideas to emphasise to the reader the importance of the situation
- It means writing from the author's point of view or perspective.
- Words like this help to make the reader feel like you are their friend or that they are talking to you personally
- Used to make the reader feel like they are being included, valued and that they are talking to you personally
- This is used because it makes writing sound more objective, concerned about facts and are not influenced as much by personal feelings or biases.
- These are verbs that demand action from the reader
- These help to make the text seem logical and helps the reader to follow the argument you are making
- Using these helps provide evidence to make the reader believe the information is reliable
