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Unfamiliar Text Language Features Level 2 - Practice Exam 2016
Unfamiliar Text Language Features Level 2 - Practice Exam 2016
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An #English #Unfamiliar Text Quizs testing #Parts of Speech and #Language Features
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Closed, wailed, turn, run, crushed, bursting, swooping, crawled, cowered.
Nouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Verbs
2
Name the language feature:
"The sea's skin peeling back . . ."
Superlative
Simile
Irony
Metaphor
3
Name the language feature:
Sunshine and strength, good sense, patience, versatility . . .
Imperative
Rhetorical question
Listing
Repetition
4
Name the language features:
"He tried to turn and run but the dream was on his back . . ."
Simile
Analogy
Superlative
Personification
5
Children's Bay is an example of what?
Pronoun
Superlative
Preposition
Proper noun
6
What is another name for the mood/feeling/tone of a certain word or words?
Connotation
Juxtaposition
Abstraction
Denotation
7
Name the language feature:
He wrote, it was "like coming home."
Listing
Repetition
Quote
Imperative
8
Similes, metaphors, personification are used to create what? Choose the best answer from below.
Intensity
Confusion
Imagery
Action
9
Name the part of speech:
Scampering, drifted, striking, biting, thumping, bucking, swayed.
Adverbs
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
10
What sort of language often appeals to the largest readership?
Formal language
Colloquial language
Emotive language
Foreign language
11
What is often the effect of using a lot of verbs in a text?
To put the reader to sleep.
Slows down the pace.
Directly addresses the audience.
Adds action and intensity and increases the pace.
12
Name the part of speech:
dusty, tiny
Preposition
Adjective
Verb
Noun
13
Name the language feature:
"Slipping the embrace of the Bay's arms . . . "
Cliche'
Personification
Anecdote
Simile
14
Type of language?
"Show pony", "illegal biffo".
Colloquial language
Emotive language
Jargon
Formal language
15
What sort of language?
Inspiration, proud to be a Kiwi, compassion, generosity . . .
Colloquial language
Formal language
Emotive language
Slang
16
What type of sentence?
A stream flowed by. He stood still.
Compound
Simple
Minor
Complex
17
Name the part of speech:
us, we
Pronoun
Preposition
Proper noun
Conjunction
18
What sort of connotation do the following words have?
Dark, violent, terror, pain, crushed.
Negative
Positive
Neutral
19
Name the part of speech:
Sir Graham Henry, New Zealand, the All Blacks.
Pronouns
Verbs
Proper nouns
Adjectives
20
Expert opinion, quotes, statistics are all used to add what to a text?
Validity
Colour
Confusion
Emotion
21
Contorted
face, places so
dark
and
violent
and
bloody . . . humped
,
clawed
,
crooked
shapes.
Verbs
Pronouns
Adverbs
Adjectives
22
Name the language feature:
"He felt the stillness rolling off like water."
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
23
"We hooked broken pieces of lightening, dragging them flashing and shivering from the ocean."
Metaphor
Repetition
Simile
Imperative
