Matching Pairs Language features card matchingOnline version Match the language feature to the description or example. by Ruth North 1 First/Second/Third person 2 Adverb 3 Simile 4 Alliteration 5 Repetition 6 Tone 7 Metaphor 8 Pathetic fallacy 9 Statistics 10 Noun 11 Rule of 3 12 Onomatopoeia 13 Dramatic irony 14 Personification 15 Verb 16 Colloquialism 17 Polysyndeton 18 Lists 19 Lexical field 20 Adjective Word that describes a noun: small, funny, orange, tired. Giving a number of examples, things or ideas. The weather matches the tone: the rained poured down as he sadly walked away. Matching consonant sounds: silently slithering snakes Doing word: go, saw, tries, thinks, agreeing. Words that relate to the topic - for example, lots of medical words when you are describing a hospital. We know things that the characters don't. Comparing without using like or as: she was a tornado of energy. Word that describes a verb: successfully, late, politely, brutally. Numbers, facts, data, dates, amounts, ages: numbers we can check if we want to. Using the same word or phrase more than once. Informal or local language, sometimes using slang. A thing or animal does human things. Words that sound like sounds: bang! splosh! whoosh! trickle A comparison that uses the words “like” or “as” e.g. he was like an eager puppy I, you or them Repetition of three things or even the same thing repeated three times. Using and or or in a list instead of commas. Naming word: dog, cat, college, Barnsley, Sheffield Wednesday, Primark, Ruth. The overall feeling, attitude or mood of a text: the vibe.
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