Mega Y12 English Quiz 2014

Question 1

What language feature compares two things using like or as?

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 2

On which street did the Hubermann's live?

Accepted Answer

Himmel

Question 3

What is the common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work?

Accepted Answer

Theme

Question 4

What did the mayor's wife see Liesel do?

Accepted Answer

take a burned book

Question 5

Who out of the Steiner family does not die in the bombing?

Accepted Answer

Father

Question 6

What is it called when a character either speaks to you or directly acknowledges the audience?

Accepted Answer

Breaking the fourth wall

Question 7

Who is Itzak Heller?

Accepted Answer

The Jewish policeman

Question 8

Words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses.

Accepted Answer

imagery

Question 9

The patter of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is?

Accepted Answer

rhthym

Question 10

What is the first book Liesel steals?

Accepted Answer

The Grave Diggers Handbook

Question 11

Why did Liesel have to live with the Hubermann's?

Accepted Answer

her mother left her

Question 12

What is the accordian a symbol of?

Accepted Answer

Hope

Question 13

What is the pattern in which which the last words in lines of poetry rhyme?

Accepted Answer

rhyme scheme

Question 14

When did World War 2 begin?

Accepted Answer

1939

Question 15

What is a theme in a movie?

Accepted Answer

Central ideas or issues

Question 16

Language that goes beyond the literal meanings of word to create imagery.

Accepted Answer

figurative language

Question 17

Where is The Pianist set?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw, Poland

Question 18

What is the main character in a film that has to overcome something?

Accepted Answer

Hero, Protagonist

Question 19

What are sound words?

Accepted Answer

Onomatopoeia

Question 20

Where can Szpilman take Dorota on their date?

Accepted Answer

The street

Question 21

What is Death haunted by?

Accepted Answer

Humans

Question 22

What years is the Book Thief set?

Accepted Answer

1938 - 1943

Question 23

Who is NOT a character in the Book Thief?

Accepted Answer

<p>Esther</p>

Question 24

Bang. Crash. Pop are examples of what?

Accepted Answer

Onomatopoeia

Question 25

What does Max almost die from?

Accepted Answer

Cold from snow

Question 26

Who is Szpilman's love interest?

Accepted Answer

Dorota

Question 27

What is a voice over?

Accepted Answer

a voice heard offscreen, the narrator of the film

Question 28

Why did the Nazis burn books?

Accepted Answer

All are correct

Question 29

What is a film synopsis?

Accepted Answer

Summary of plot

Question 30

How old was Liesel at the beginning of the book?

Accepted Answer

9

Question 31

What musical instruments are NOT seen in the movie?

Accepted Answer

Viola

Question 32

Who were the Hubermann's hiding in the basement?

Accepted Answer

Max

Question 33

Something that has meaning in itself but also represents something else.

Accepted Answer

symbol

Question 34

'He did not realise that his last chance was walking out the door" is an example of?

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 35

The writer's attitude about the text he or she has written is called...

Accepted Answer

tone

Question 36

Where does Liesel steal her second book from?

Accepted Answer

The book burning

Question 37

What term is used when you (the audience) know what's going to happen but the characters don't?

Accepted Answer

Dramatic Irony

Question 38

Who narrates The Book Thief?

Accepted Answer

Death

Question 39

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas is a what?

Accepted Answer

Metaphor

Question 40

A set of words that can have more than one meaning behind them.

Accepted Answer

idioms

Question 41

Which of the following symbols were NOT used in the Book Thief?

Accepted Answer

Star of David

Question 42

A group of lines together in a poem, like sentences in a paragraph.

Accepted Answer

stanza

Question 43

the repetition of identical or similar sounds in words is what?

Accepted Answer

rhyme

Question 44

Who was Liesel's best friend?

Accepted Answer

Rudy

Question 45

Language feature that repeats vowel sounds.

Accepted Answer

assonance

Question 46

What is a warning or a hint of a future event in a literary work?

Accepted Answer

Foreshadowing

Question 47

What was Hans Hubermann's job?

Accepted Answer

Painter

Question 48

What is the turning point in the action and/or the highest point of interest or excitement?

Accepted Answer

Climax

Question 49

What is the word for the atmosphere of a literary work or your feeling when reading a story?

Accepted Answer

Mood

Question 50

An exaggeration so dramatic that no one would believe its true is what?

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 51

Who does Rudy pretend to be?

Accepted Answer

Jessie Owens

Question 52

Who almost shot Szpilman at the end of the movie?

Accepted Answer

The Russians

Question 53

Who is the German officer who hides Szpilman and brings him food?

Accepted Answer

Hosenfield

Question 54

What is it when a set of words uses the same sound or letters repeatedly?

Accepted Answer

alliteration

Question 55

What language feature gives non human things human characteristics?

Accepted Answer

Personification

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Mega Y12 English Quiz 2014

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