Creative Writing

LANGUAGE FEATURES FOR RUGBY AND LEAGUE

The language features used are: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia. Please write the language features after each sentence. Refer back to the definitions if you need to. Note: There may be more than one language feature for each number.

1) The Hornby league team were a machine against Haeata.
Smile

2) However, one could be forgiven for thinking they were like a machine that had been left in the shed over the Summer.
Alliteration

3) They coughed and choked like an old car, before the teamed changed into overdrive for the second half.
Onomatopoeia

4) As the game went on, crashes, cracks and collisions were heard around the field.
Personification

5) Haeata became a car wreck in the last quarter, with a total of 3 players yellow carded.
Alliteration

6) Hornby went on a frenetic feeding frenzy in the last 15 minutes, amassing a very satisfying 20 points.
Onomatopoeia

7) Sonny was like a caped crusader scoring several tries.
Metaphor

8) The Hornby supporters clapped and cheered when he did.
Personification

9) Latham limped languidly off the field after halftime.
Smilie

10) The rubber hits the road for the Hornby next week.
Onomatopoeia

11) Corey is the king of Junior Rugby League coaching.
Smilie

12) Haeata licked their wounds after the full time whistle.
Alliteration

13) The Hornby backs were like a fully firing flight squadron.
Metaphor

14) The forwards were a fleet of tanks demolishing everything in their path. Alliteration

15) The Junior League competition is shaping up to be a monster competition.
Personification

16) The first round of the competition chuckled at critics who said it was going to be boring.
Metaphor

17) The Hornby fields sighed with its growing pains
Alliteration

18) Junior and Khan were like unstoppable machines
metaphor

19) Jaedon was a turbo-charged bulldozer on the field
Smilie

20) Vai was valiant, violently vicious, and very vigilant as he vanquished the opposition with a vengeance!
Personification

Finish off each word picture for each of the four seasons? Here is an example of one:

Summer sounds like kids Splashing and yelling in the pool.

Spring looks like the grass growing

Spring tastes like crispy apples

Spring smells like meat cooking

Spring feels like soft grass

Spring sounds like birds singing

Summer looks like Hot BBQ

Summer tastes like Sausages on the BBQ

Summer smells like People having a lot of outside BBQ

Summer feels like People wanting to swim

Summer sounds like kids splashing and yelling in the pool.  

Autumn looks like Leaves on the ground falling from be trees

Autumn tastes like chicken noodle soup

Autumn smells like firewood burning

Autumn feels like crunchy leaves

Autumn sounds like the trees making be noise and then the leaves falling on the ground

Winter looks like snow over be ground.

Winter tastes like Hot milos with marshmallows.

Winter smells like a cold breeze flowing through my hair.

Winter feels like freezing.

Winter sounds like people saying it's cold.