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A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character.

Which kind of Discovery is not explicitly explored in the Area of Study rubric?

They were skin and bone and covered in boils - and they’d just been told to ‘keep smiling!'

A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements: "deafening silence."

Sensory details in a work; involves any or all of the five senses.

Which Owen poem is structured in small, numbered vignettes?

They have slanty eyes. If they can’t see properly how can they shoot?

From which Owen poem is the following?: "We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe."

An overstatement characterized by exaggerated language

Every night when I fall asleep, Lipstick Larry’s waiting. He calls to me and I go to him.

Your skull was bursting from it. From cerebral malaria

What is implied by a word.

What is the name of Tom Brennan's home town?

Which Owen poem starts with an Epigraph?

Recurrent device, formula, or situation.

Which of these is not an effect of transition, according to the syllabus?

The attitude a literary work takes towards its subject and theme.

From which Owen poem is the following?: "Was it for this the clay grew tall?"

Just the roar of the sea - and us, ghostly white on the deck.

I can still see those zeros flying over. Hundreds of them - in V formations