English Language

• alliteration


  Beautiful bright birds singing in the garden today
• sibilance


  She slithered smoothly and silently behind me
• direct address and rhetorical question


  Don't you think we should do something?
• metaphor


  The sun was an eye of fire
• simile


  The cat's fur was like soft, smooth velvet
• simile


  The water was as cold as the Arctic
• personification


  The clouds floated lazily past the sun
• emotive language


  Their faces were small and pinched; they looked as though they hadn't eaten a decent meal for days
• verb


  Running, skipping, laughing
• adjectives


  delightful, baby-pink, tiny, enormous, peacock-blue, frightening
• noun


  cat, school, bus, field, cup, teacher
• adverbs


  superbly, obviously, danergously, happily
• onomatopoeia


  bang, squeal
• value, preciousness

  ruby-red connotes________
• danger, violence


  blood-red connotes ________
• anecdote


  The other day my friend Jim had his bank account hacked into. They managed to stop the criminals from taking any more money, but it was a huge hassle for Jim. This shows how the internet can be dangerous in some instances.
• sarcasm


  That boat looks about as seaworthy as the Titanic
• sensory language


  The fog's stealthy fingers were in my hair and on my clothes; I could smell the damp, fetid stink of the sewers and hear the muttering of the passers-by, but I was effectively blinded by the mist.
• hyperbole


  The tree was about a billion meters tall and bigger than any giant.
• repetition


  If this didn't stop, I was going to scream. Why won't it stop? Someone make it stop!