English Quiz N1

Question 1

Fiction

Answer 1

Stories about imaginary characters and events

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

The way that someone speaks or how a piece of writing sounds suggesting mood and feelings

Question 3

Summarise

Answer 3

To explain main points of the text in a few words

Question 4

Prose

Answer 4

The form of language found in novels and non-fiction texts that is written in paragraph rather than verse

Question 5

Script

Answer 5

a play that is written down for actors to use

Question 6

Figure

Answer 6

recognizable character in a story like a hero, villain, victim

Question 7

Narrator

Answer 7

a person who tells the story

Question 8

Dialogue

Answer 8

conversation between two or more people that is written as direct speech

Question 9

Gesture

Answer 9

movement of hands and arms to add emphasis or to bring story to a life

Question 10

Context

Answer 10

a situation within something that exists or happens

Question 11

Audio Drama

Answer 11

A play that is heard rather than seen by the audience

Question 12

Stage directions

Answer 12

Words in a script that explains to the actor what the play is about or to tell an actor how to speak or move

Question 13

Theme

Answer 13

The main subject of talk: book, film, poem

Question 14

Characteristation

Answer 14

The way narrator gives character’s personality

Question 15

Structural features

Answer 15

The way text is ordered and organized

Question 16

Figurative language

Answer 16

Words and phrases that are not defined by their basic meaning instead they have imaginary meanings that create special effect

Question 17

Simile

Answer 17

type of figurative language that is used to compare things with like or as

Question 18

Personification

Answer 18

a type of figurative language where object has a human personality

Question 19

Alliteration

Answer 19

use of the same sound, especially consonants, at the beginning of several close together words

Question 20

Non-fiction

Answer 20

writing that is based on real facts and events

Question 21

Symbol

Answer 21

a literal object that stands for something else

Question 22

End-Stopped

Answer 22

where a line of poetry has a full stop at the end

Question 23

Enjambment

Answer 23

where one line of poetry continues on the line below

Question 24

Caesura

Answer 24

a break within a line of poetry where either punctuation or the rhythm indicates a pause

Question 25

Aural image

Answer 25

An image that appeals to the sense of hearing

Question 26

Tactical image

Answer 26

An image that appeals to sense of touch

Question 27

Visual image

Answer 27

An image that appeals to the sense of sight