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Revision of creative writing techniques

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1
‘grotesquely’ is ...
A noun
A synonym
An adverb
An adjective
2
Spot the hyperbole
Her anger was a forest fire.
If I don’t win the lottery I’ll explode.
The waves wistfully washed the willing shore.
The storm vented its anger on the darkened city.
3
Which one is correctly punctuated?
She asked ‘What time is the party?’
‘What time is the party?’ she asked.
‘What time is the party,’ she asked?
‘What time?’ she asked ‘is the party.’
4
Setting means...
Planning and drafting for creative writing.
An agent such as gelatine used to firm up a jelly.
Telling the reader the key details of a story.
The time, location and atmosphere of a story.
5
‘Bleep’ is an example of...
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Blanking out swear words in dialogue
Assonance
6
A synonym is...
A word that means the opposite of another word.
A word that means the same as another word.
Two or more words in a row starting with the letter ‘s’.
A descriptive word.
7
'We had all seen the ghost’ is...
A Sun newspaper headline
Use of a pronoun for dramatic effect
An example of second person narrative
An example of first person narrative
8
Which one of these is a simile?
The fern lightly stroked the water with its delicate fronds
His anger was like an erupting volcano
Mia’s happiness lit up the room
The snow fell swirling softly all through the starlit night.
9
Which one is a complex sentence?
Football is one of the sports I play.
I play football but I don’t like watching it.
Because I like sport, I play football.
I like sport and I play football.
10
Foreshadowing is...
A way of organising paragraphs
Negative adjectives used to create atmosphere
A neighbour’s tree that overhangs your gar-den.
Building in clues about what is going to hap-pen in a story.