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Description
Quiz by Sarah Holmes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sarah Holmes
over 9 years ago
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Question 1
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Annotate the opening of Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom to show how language is being used to create setting and atmosphere.
Answer
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3rd person generic = major event
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Start of religious imagery
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Represents the old ways
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Alliteration helps build anticipation
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Transitional time = symbolic
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Colours relate to light
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Verb suggests caution
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Links to verb choice
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Old way of life
Question 2
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Annotate the next part of the poem to show how Douglas is using personification and onomatopoeia.
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Personification builds tension
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Onomatopoeia builds tension
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Onomatopoeic name
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Name personifies birds
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Personified as worshippers
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Onomatopoeia reflects worship
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Personification builds tension
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Onomatopoeia builds tension
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Personified as a welcoming comittee
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Onomatopoeic
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Onomatopoeic sibilance
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Sibilance used to personify
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Personified as a disciple
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Onomatopoeic gathering
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Onomatopoeic sibilance again
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Sibilance to personify again
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Repetition and sibilance = onomatopoeic
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Repetition & sibilance = personification
Question 3
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Drag and drop the correct annotations to show how Douglas develops the religious imagery in her presentation of the switch on.
Answer
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In a glory like a saint
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Christ on the mount
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Verbs like swooning in church
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Verbs reflect prayer
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Exclamatory like a prophet
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Exclamatory like a priest
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Personified as worshippers
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Personified as nuns
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Alliteration = hushed reverence
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Alliteration = religious fevour
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Like a new kind of bible
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Like a new kind of folk tale
Question 4
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Annotate the final lines of the poem to show how Douglas makes use of anti-climax.
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Connotes speed of loss of interest
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Back to the old ways
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Literal and metaphorical darkness
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Finality in this statement
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Modernity is fleeting
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