End of Term Quiz for 8P1

What type of adjective is used here? That Y7 student is the tallest in their year!

Which of these genres was not written by Shakespeare?

What is foreshadowing?

What is the term for when a writer creates a new word?

1. What did John Donne imply when he said ‘No man is an island’?

Which of these is not a Gothic Horror convention?

When was Shakespeare alive?

Which revolution influenced the Romantics?

What is the technical term for a line in a poem with no punctuation at the end?

Which Romantic poem is a political poem, written in response to the Peterloo Massacre?

Who is my favourite character in the following 4?

1. What type of list is this? ‘Trees, cars, people, fields, clouds rolling by,…’

What type of adjective is used? I find English lessons very interesting.

What is the moral lesson behind Milton’s Paradise Lost?

1. Name one of the key topics Jonathan Swift twists in his novel Guliver’s Travels.

Why does Othello kill Desdemona?

Which of these were the Romantics not interested in?

Who is the antagonist in Othello?

What type of verb is used? That could be a good idea.

What is the term used for rhyming lines linking to a theme of heroism often used by Alexander Pope?

What technique is used here? ‘the fire laid hold on the forest and began to gnaw’

What technique is this? ‘I lit a funeral pyre to burn the fallen dead.’

What tense is used in this sentence? I will speak to you tomorrow.

which is an abstract noun?

Which adventure novel is widely considered to be the first novel written in English?

What is the adverb in this sentence? The ball of wool unravelled entirely.

What technique is this? ‘Which is better-- to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill?’

What is a soliloquy?

Which literary period was Shakespeare writing during?

1. How many lines does a sonnet typically have?

In Lord of the Flies, which character is presented as sensitive and shy?

Which major world event influenced William Golding’s Lord of the Flies?

What type of noun is used? I accidentally left my homework on the bus.

What type of conjunction connects two main clauses?

In the poem ‘Darkness,’ what imagined event does Byron describe?

1. What is the technical term for a pause in the middle of a line of poetry?

Dawn broke and brightened our day with her beautiful welcome.

1. What is the term used for when we write a poem about silly things in a grand way?

In Lord of the Flies, what object symbolises order and civilisation?

What word describes a society with great injustice and suffering?