English Tension Devices Quiz

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KS3 English Quiz on English Tension Devices Quiz, created by AlexFitton on 19/05/2014.
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Question 1

Question
The 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)
Answer
  • Metonymy of Gloom and Horror
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • None
  • Variation of Sentence Length
  • Simlie
  • Metaphor

Question 2

Question
'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.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 3

Question
A '...' is called a...
Answer
  • A twitchy finger on the keyboard
  • A man who has has fallen asleep and left his finger on the full stop button
  • Neither of the above

Question 4

Question
A Red Herring is where the author creates a fight scene between two, oppositely coloured Herrings.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 5

Question
Punctuation is a tension device
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 6

Question
The 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?
Answer
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 6

Question 7

Question
This sentence is what? 'Miss White leapt up. It was astonishing. Amazing. And it was so unexpected!'
Answer
  • Withholding Information
  • Using onomatopoeias

Question 8

Question
Name 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.
Answer
  • Alliteration
  • Repetition
  • Metonymy of Gloom and Horror
  • Foreshadowing
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Personification
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Variation of Sentence Length
  • Sibilance
  • Tripling

Question 9

Question
Ben's rebellion is awesome. Oli is a dictator. It's our time to rise and fight. For the good of ExamTime!
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 10

Question
'The boat rocked merrily in the water as the Summer sun bore down on it's wooden planks' Is the use of what?
Answer
  • Pathetic Fallacy and the Metonymy of Gloom and Horror
  • Simile and Pathetic Fallacy
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