THE ENGLISH/ENGLISH LANGUAGE UNIT ONE 15 QUESTIONS – HOW WELL CAN YOU DO?
1 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE IS THIS? Listening to Mozart’s concerto felt like an angel bringing music from heaven!
SIMILE
2 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE AM I? In the last eight years, 18 people have been killed and 481 injured by cows in the UK.
FACTS/ STATISTICS
3 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE IS USED HERE? These children have to walk 5 miles a day just to fetch clean water. They have no time to attend school.
ANECDOTE
4 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE DID TONY BLAIR USE IN THIS SPEECH? What we need to focus on is education, education.
REPETITION
5 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE DOES THIS PRODUCT USE?
ALLITERATION
6 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICES ARE USED HERE? Would you really want to spend your holiday anywhere else?
RHETORICAL ND QUESTION / 2 PERSON PRONOUNS
7 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE IS USED HERE? The trees whispered secrets to each other.
PERSONIFICATION
8 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE IS USED HERE? Vienna is an exciting, vibrant and interesting city.
ADJECTIVES / RULE OF THREE
9 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE IS BEING USED HERE? All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances;
METAPHOR
10 WHICH LINGUISTIC DEVICE AM I? I sound like the object or action being referred to. For example: Bang, drip, whoosh.
ONOMATOPOEIA
11 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE DID BOB GELDOF USE IN LIVE AID? Send us the … money now!
IMPERATIVES
12 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE IS USED IN THIS PASSAGE? These defenceless, innocent animals are slaughtered when they are no longer needed to entertain the jeering masses.
EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
13 WHICH LINGUISTIC DEVICE IS USED HERE? “The bar was absolutely packed – there must have been at least three people there. ”
IRONY
14 WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE DID BARACK OBAMA USE BELOW…? “we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America”
RULE OF THREE
AND FINALLY … WHICH LANGUAGE DEVICE IS USED BELOW? This quiz demonstrates superb technical skill and is probably the best quiz in the world!