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Language Features
Give out Bingo cards.
3 wins per game: 1 for a horizontal line, 1 for a vertical line and 1 for full house
Identify the example, tick off the language feature
Run the
powerpoint
Check winnersSlide2
Personification
The
buzzsaw
grinds its teeth.Slide3
PunSlide4
Oxymoron
Who ordered
jumbo shrimp?Slide5
Symbolism
H
e gracefully stooped and lifted a pink shell from beneath the surface of the sand grains. Slowly and gently he offered her the treasure and she felt an incontrollable smile on her lips as she bashfully accepted it.Slide6
Simile
I wandered lonely as a cloudSlide7
Motif
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhoodSlide8
Repetition
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
*The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston HughesSlide9
Rhetorical Question
Do bears live in the woods?Slide10
RhymeSlide11
Listing
The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. (from the opening of The Hobbit by JRR
Tolkein
)Slide12
Alliteration
Larry’s leopard likes
l
eaping lizards.Slide13
MetaphorSlide14
JuxtapositionSlide15
Allegory
Just as the caterpillar comes out of its cocoon, so we must come out of our comfort zone.Slide16
Euphemism
She passed
a
way last night.Slide17
Hyperbole
I’ve told you
a
thousand times
t
o learn your language features!Slide18
Antithesis
Snow White, the purest young girl is portrayed with the wickedest of old women, her step mother and the queen, who is also a witch.Slide19
OnomatopoeiaSlide20
ClicheSlide21
Irony
The old man
w
as knocked over
b
y an ambulance.Slide22
Allusion
Jake Sully in Avatar
d
escribes himself
a
s a member of the
Jarhead clan.Slide23
Emotive Language
Drink
coca-cola
You’ll like it!Slide24
Allegory
The book, Animal Farm, is about animals rebelling against the farmers, but then the pig leader abuses his power and manipulates the rest of the animals, just like how Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union in real life.Slide25
Inversion
In the novel Noughts and Crosses, the author
Malorie
Blackman breaks the stereotype by creating a racial society where the blacks have all the power.Slide26
Personification
The wind spoke
i
n gentle whispersSlide27
Cliche
I lost track of time.