Vocabulary

Question 1

What is first person narrative?

Answer 1

Limited narrative, as they don’t have the omniscient perspective on the tale

Question 2

What is Retrospective?

Answer 2

Looking back at events

Question 3

What is perspective?

Answer 3

A point of view

Question 4

What is Chronological?

Answer 4

In time order

Question 5

What is an unreliable narrator?

Answer 5

A narrator who does not know the whole truth or hides it

Question 6

What is the gothic genre?

Answer 6

A supernatural based genre. Often includes multiple narrators or forms of narration

Question 7

What is the crime genre?

Answer 7

A mystery genre, often includes red herrings, the themes of appearance and reality, and the urban and rural

Question 8

What is an anti-climax

Answer 8

Tension not resolved by the climax

Question 9

What is a climax?

Answer 9

A high point of drama

Question 10

What is Withholding?

Answer 10

Keeping facts or information from the reader

Question 11

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 11

An event that suggests a event that will happen

Question 12

What is tension/anticipation

Answer 12

Delaying plot or information. Tension makes the reader feel uneasy while anticipation makes the reader feel excited

Question 13

What is Denouement?

Answer 13

The resolution of a novel

Question 14

What is Dialogue/action/description?

Answer 14

The prevalence of these are important in a paragraph: what dominates? Why? Effect?

Question 15

What is atmosphere?

Answer 15

The tone of mood of a place or situation

Question 16

What is a Flashback?

Answer 16

Set in a time earlier than the main story

Question 17

What is a flashforward?

Answer 17

Set in a time later than the main story

Question 18

What is setting?

Answer 18

The surrounding where an event takes place

Question 19

What is a Shift?

Answer 19

A change in tone or mood

Question 20

What is an alliteration?

Answer 20

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word

Question 21

What is a simile?

Answer 21

The comparison of one thing with another thing

Question 22

What is an adjective?

Answer 22

A word naming the attribute of a noun

Question 23

What is an onomatopoeia?

Answer 23

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Question 24

What do questions do?

Answer 24

Makes the reader read more to find the answer

Question 25

What do long/short sentences do?

Answer 25

The change in pace creates tension

Question 26

What do emotive language do?

Answer 26

It makes the reader feel what the author wants the reader to feel

Question 27

What do vague/unclear detail do?

Answer 27

Makes the reader sometimes be mislead so helps with a big plot twist which creates tension

Question 28

What is a common noun?

Answer 28

In general used to name a person,place or thing

Question 29

What is a proper noun?

Answer 29

Used to name a person,place or thing specifically

Question 30

What is an countable noun?

Answer 30

Nouns that can be counted

Question 31

What is an uncounted noun?

Answer 31

Nouns that can’t be counted

Question 32

What is a concrete noun?

Answer 32

Nouns that you can see,hear,touch,smell or taste

Question 33

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 33

Nouns you can’t see,hear,touch,smell or taste

Question 34

What is a compound noun?

Answer 34

Two or more words to create a noun

Question 35

What is a collective noun?

Answer 35

The name for a group of things

Question 36

What is an adverb?

Answer 36

A word that describes a verb

Question 37

What is an adverbial phrase?

Answer 37

A group of 2 or more words that act as a adverb

Question 38

What is an adverbial clause?

Answer 38

A clause containing a subject and a verb that acts as an adverb

Question 39

What is a fronted adverbial clause?

Answer 39

An adverb/adverbial phrase placed at the start of a sentence

Question 40

What is an a comparative adjective?

Answer 40

An adjective to compare 2 different things

Question 41

What is a superlative adjective?

Answer 41

Describes an object which is at upper or lower limit of a quality

Question 42

What is amnesty international?

Answer 42

This is the world’s leading human rights organisation,campaigning against injustice and inequality

Question 43

What is the universal declaration of human rights?

Answer 43

This is a milestone in human rights history. Drafted by representatives around the world. This was signed and agreed we by the UN in 1948

Question 44

What is protest?

Answer 44

Protest most commonly means a public show of disapproval to something. Protest is often used used as a verb meaning to participate in a protest as well

Question 45

What is ‘to bear witness’ mean?

Answer 45

If someone or thing bears witness to something that means they show or say that it exists or witnessed