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Language Features for Writers
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Language Features for Writers
📚 Part 1: Identifying Language Features
1. Which language feature uses words like "crash", "bang", and "sizzle"?
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
2. "The busy bees buzzed by the bright blue flowers." This sentence is an example of:
Rhyme
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
3. Which of these sentences contains a simile?
The wind whispered through the trees.
She was as quiet as a mouse.
The thunder roared angrily.
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
4. "The old car coughed and wheezed up the hill." What language feature is used here?
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Repetition
✏️ Part 2: Creating Language Features
5. Write your own example of alliteration using words that start with the letter 'S':
6. Complete this simile: "The clouds were as white as _______________"
7. Write a sentence that gives human qualities to the sun (personification):
8. Create three onomatopoeia words that describe sounds in a kitchen:
1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________
🎨 Part 3: Writing Challenge
9. Write a short paragraph (4-5 sentences) describing a storm. Use at least THREE different language features from the list below and underline them:
Language features to choose from: alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia
10. List the three language features you used in your paragraph above:
1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________
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