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The Ultimate English Quiz!
The Ultimate English Quiz!
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true or false: Richard uses his looks to justify his nefarious and villainous nature
False
True
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Iago is the antagonist in the play
Richard III
Othello
Hamlet
Titus Andronicus
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What is an 'adverb'?
Word to describe a noun
Word to describe a verb
A doing word
A 'thing'
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What is the name of the technique when the weather mimics the mood of the characters?
Pathetic Jealousy
Pathetic Mallacy
Pathetic Vallacy
Pathetic Fallacy
5
What are characters created from
slugs and snails and puppydogs tails
words
sugar and spice and all things nice
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The Romantic poet Samuel Coleridge described Iago as a...
"cheeky chappie"
"wonderful man"
"motiveless malignity"
"ruffian"
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true or false, Richard III is very good looking
false
true
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What is genre?
a fictitious prose narrative of book length
a style or category of a text
the subject of a text
a piece of writing with an expression of feelings and ideas
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Who was the author of Frankenstein?
Don Quixote
Edgar Allen Poe
Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Select a feature of the ‘magic realism’ genre
Books that are about impossible or improbable things
Writing in a way that is accurate and true to life
Depiction of realistic world with explained magical moments
fiction which is intended to scare, or startle its readers
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What does Miss Sanville say is always good to talk about in an ANALYSIS essay?
Genre
Characters
Single word connotations
Plot
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What is ‘theme’
The central abstract ideas that a text explores
The type of text it is
A character
a style or category of art, music, or literature
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What is a soliloquy?
when a character acts in an evil way
when a character talks to himself or herself when alone
when a character is alone on stage with another character
when a character makes a comic joke
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What is a noun?
A word to describe a verb
A describing word
A ‘thing’
A doing word
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For ANALYTICAL writing, how can you structure your paragraphs?
PEA
PPP
PEE
PEAEA
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Select the abstract nouns
scream, imagine, think
London, Wilmslow, and Africa
generosity, charity, and democracy
fire, air, and water
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What is an 'antagonist'?
the author of a book
a person who opposes/is hostile to someone/something
the leading character in a play, film, novel
a baddie in a book
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Tick the features of an article
hyperbole, rhetorical questions, opinions
a journalistic tone, sophisticated vocab
address, personal pronouns, questions
headline, tagline, subheadings
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I what type of text would you find a 'caesura'
In an article
In a story about Caesar
In a novel
In a poem
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When speakers converse, we in the English-lesson world call it...
Dialogue
Fun
Confusing
A conversation
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Plays are divided into
pages
stanzas
acts and scenes
paragraphs
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What is an 'adjective'
Word to describe an adverb
Word to describe a noun
Word to describe a verb
Word to describe a adjective
23
In non-fiction, what does 'GAP' stand for?
Genre, Analysis, Perception
Give, Applause, Please
Genre, Audience, Purpose
Good, Article, Please
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Persuasive/rhetorical writing is
giving facts
trying to get someone to do something
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true or false: Richard doesn’t want to be king
false
true
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And now... funniest moment of the year?
Haydn and Jamie playing Sephy and Callum
Every lesson!
Gabriel's working-class hero accents
Jamie saying 'STATISTICS!'
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What is an 'abstract noun'?
A person or place
A 'thing' which we CANNOT experience with our senses
A 'thing' which we CAN experience with our senses
A genre of art
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What is a 'protagonist'?
a character in a novel
a person who opposes or is hostile to someone/something
the author of a novel
the leading character in a play, film, novel, etc
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What does Titus Andronicus do to Tamora's sons?
buries them to their chests and leaves them starve to death
poisons them at the dinner table
locks them in a cage with a hungry lion
bakes them into a pie and serves them to Tamora
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What is a 'connotation'?
An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person
A metaphor
An example of imagery
Analysis
31
What book did Bram Stoker write?
Vathek
Twilight
Dracula
Frankenstein
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Informative writing is...
Trying to get someone to do something
Giving facts
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The word 'lion' could have connotations of...
Kindness, softness, meagerness
Democracy, politics, law
Bravery, pride, dominion
Silliness, foolery, jokes
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What is an 'end-stopped' line?
a line in poetry which ends with a full stop
a line in poetry which ends with a bang
a line in poetry which ends with a comma
a line in poetry which ends with a noun
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Tamora is the antagonist in the play...
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Titus Andronicus
Richard III
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What is 'enjambment'?
a line in verse which ends with punctuation
a painful disease of the joints
Where a band gets together and improvises some music
continuation of a sentence over the end of a line in poetry
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When was Shakespeare writing?
late 1800s to early 1900s
late 1600s to early 1700s
late 1500s to early 1600s
late 1900s to early 2000s
