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English Tension Devices Quiz

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  1. 1The sentence 'The overgrown bushes yelled like football fans as the hideous weather drained the happiness and hope from my soul' is the use of which tension devices?

    (Tick Four)
    1. AMetonymy of Gloom and Horror
    2. BPathetic Fallacy
    3. CNone
    4. DVariation of Sentence Length
    5. ESimlie
    6. FMetaphor
  2. 2'Tom laughed cruelly. And smiled. Smiled at his own genius. It seemed to radiate from his body. Genius. Pure Genius' This is the use of Variation of Sentence length.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  3. 3A '...' is called a...
    1. AA twitchy finger on the keyboard
    2. BA man who has has fallen asleep and left his finger on the full stop button
    3. CNeither of the above
  4. 4A Red Herring is where the author creates a fight scene between two, oppositely coloured Herrings.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  5. 5Punctuation is a tension device
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  6. 6The sentence 'He was evil. He was made of the stuff. So where his shoes. And his suit. Evil seemed to leave his body like heat waves' uses how many metaphors?
    1. A2
    2. B3
    3. C4
    4. D6
  7. 7This sentence is what? 'Miss White leapt up. It was astonishing. Amazing. And it was so unexpected!'
    1. AWithholding Information
    2. BUsing onomatopoeias
  8. 8Name all the things that this short paragraph contains.

    Stephen simply took it. He never wanted to become addicted. It just happened. Because then he took another. And another. And another. His innards screamed to stop. Even the bridge trembled it's annoyance. He was a useless, hopeless, mindless mess. Idle and incoherent. Depressed and dilapidated. The rain fell, heavy droplets trying to nail him to the ground. But something was lurking. Something was hiding. Hiding in the night. Hiding. Ready to attack. Then PLOP. He flicked the cigarette into a nearby lake, letting it float away, trying to force his troubles to float with it.
    1. AAlliteration
    2. BRepetition
    3. CMetonymy of Gloom and Horror
    4. DForeshadowing
    5. EPathetic Fallacy
    6. FPersonification
    7. GOnomatopoeia
    8. HVariation of Sentence Length
    9. ISibilance
    10. JTripling
  9. 9Ben's rebellion is awesome. Oli is a dictator. It's our time to rise and fight. For the good of ExamTime!Image for question 9
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  10. 10'The boat rocked merrily in the water as the Summer sun bore down on it's wooden planks' Is the use of what?
    1. APathetic Fallacy and the Metonymy of Gloom and Horror
    2. BSimile and Pathetic Fallacy

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KS3 English Quiz on English Tension Devices Quiz, created by AlexFitton on 19/05/2014.
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