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How well do you know your literary devices?
How well do you know your literary devices?
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An #English quiz to revise #poetic and general #literary terms for #GCSE
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1
Some poems are organised into separate parts known as...
Stanzas.
Chapters.
Portions.
Chunks
2
What is foregrounding?
Making something stand out from its background.
Playing four football matches on the same Saturday.
Allowing a guest football team to use your pitch.
Shouting to warn someone a golf ball's heading their way.
3
Which of these is a metaphor?
"Anis is on fire!"
"Bailey is like a bolt of lightning!"
"George's homework is magnificent!"
"11B2 were like a herd of elephants today"
4
Which of these is an example of hyperbole?
Will's working like the Hulk's anger management counsellor.
Will has never worked this hard before.
Will's working hard today.
Will is working very, very, very hard today.
5
Would you ever say that a poet
used
a theme? Which statement does
not
apply?
No. It would be better to say that they explored a theme.
Yes. Themes are handy, you can use them for lots of things.
No. It would be better to say how the theme was presented.
No. Themes are what poets write about.
6
Personification is
When you make an inhuman thing seem alive.
When you describe a person as if they are not a person.
When something is personal
When you impersonate someone.
7
Poems that tell stories are called...
Narrative poems.
Lyric poems.
Tale poems.
Story poems.
8
Which of these does
not
appear on the mark scheme for English Literature paper two?
"Slowly explains the meaning to me as if I was an idiot"
"writer's methods"
"context"
"uses terminology"
9
What is prose?
Regular writing in sentences - not poetry.
Former amateurs
Poetry
A pflower
10
"Raaghev's revision received a rapturous reception" includes...
Personification
Metaphor
Assonance
Alliteration
11
'Whoosh!' went the rush of air as Jack ran to his English lesson. Name the device.
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
12
Which of these are
not
hyperboles?
There's a ton of food on that plate.
Wow! Look at the food on that plate.
There's a pile of food on that plate.
There's loads of food on that plate.
13
Sonnet, ballad and monologue are all examples of...
Poetic forms.
Poetic nouns.
Poetic devices.
Words I don't know.
14
Tone
refers to...
Rhythm
Emotions
Theme
Rhyme
15
If you describe something by comparing it to something else, that's...
Description
A simile.
A metaphor
Effort.
16
Which of these terms are
not
relevant when you write about prose?
Narrative hook
Caesura
End-stopped lines
Enjambment
17
What is CONTEXT?
Another word for author
Ideas about a writer's lifetime that help us explore a text.
Ideas about a text that help us understand history.
Another word for structure
18
"When asked about revision, Jake's response was a
deafening silence
," - an example of...
Personification
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
19
When we write about stories, we refer to
narrative perspective
. For poems, we write about...
Poet's view
Who's talking
Poetic angle
Poetic voice
20
What is the most common use for alliteration in literature?
Humour
Foregrounding
To aid memory
To confuse the reader
