Language features quiz

1. What are these?
Identify the parts of speech or figure
of speech used.

2. What parts of the sentence are
underlined:
Dad scraped the carrots and onions
into the frying pan.

3. Figure of speech:
July had been blown out like a
candle

4. Figure of speech:
A sharp stinging drizzle

5. Part of speech:
Dad SCRAPED the carrots and onions
into the frying pan

6. Figure of speech:
..beach-huts turned blank wooden
faces

7. Part of speech:
We make our way back to the
EMPTY room.

8. Figure of speech:
Cars varoomed down the street

9. Figure of speech:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.

10. Figure of speech:
It unfolded, like a series of still
photographs

11. Part of speech:
HE said thanks as THEY turned their
backs and walked away from HIM.

12. Figure of speech:
A light in a sea of darkness

13. Figure of speech:
Ticktock, ticktock… the sound of the
clock was all that could be heard in
the hospital waiting room

14. Part of speech:
Lacey and I managed to break off all
the beer cans except the one htat
was superglued DIRECTLY to Dave’s
hand.

15. Part of speech:
OH, the unrivalled stench of
branded skin…

16. Figure of speech:
James heard the last piece of
cheesecake in the refrigerator calling
his name.

17. Answers

18. What parts of the sentence are
underlined:
Dad scraped the carrots and onions
into the frying pan.
(COMMON)
NOUNS

19. July had been blown out like a
candle
SIMILE

20. A sharp stinging drizzle
ALLITERATION

21. Dad SCRAPED the carrots and
onions into the frying pan
VERB

22. ..beach-huts turned blank wooden
faces
PERSONIFICATION

23. Part of speech:
We make our way back to the
EMPTY room.
ADJECTIVE

24. Cars varoomed down the street
ONOMATOPOEIA

25. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
ALLITERATION

26. It unfolded, like a series of still
photographs
SIMILE

27. Part of speech:
HE said thanks as THEY turned their
backs and walked away from HIM.
PRONOUN

28. A light in a sea of darkness
METAPHOR

29. Ticktock, ticktock… the sound of the
clock was all that could be heard in
the hospital waiting room
ONOMATOPOEIA

30. Part of speech:
Lacey and I managed to break off all
the beer cans except the one that
was superglued DIRECTLY to Dave’s
hand.
ADVERB

31. Part of speech:
OH, the unrivalled stench of
branded skin…
INTERJECTION

32. James heard the last piece of
cheesecake in the refrigerator calling
his name.
PERSONIFICATION