Starter quiz
- What is structure?
- the kind or type of text
- the story of a text
- the way in which we organise a text ✓
- what comes where and why in a text ✓
- the time in which a text was produced
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- What is tension?
- a feeling of confusion that the reader gets when things are unclear
- the feeling that something bad or unpleasant might happen ✓
- a feeling of relief the reader gets at the end of the text
- a feeling of anticipation as the reader waits to discover something ✓
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- Which of the following describes 'mirroring'?
- changing the focus of your writing to build tension
- repeating ideas throughout a text
- reflecting ideas from the beginning of a text again at the end ✓
- using the same metaphor throughout a piece of writing
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- Which of the following words is an example of an adverb?
- aghast
- slowly ✓
- frightened
- silently ✓
- shivering
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- Which of the following is an example of a cliff-hanger?
- The end.
- The door slammed as the realisation dawned on me: it had been him all along... ✓
- I struggled on, without hope and without answers.
- And that was how I became world champion.
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- Which of the following similes would be most appropriate in this Gothic description: "Her windows, like __________ stared out into the abyss, reflecting only the pallor of the moon"?
- rare crystals
- vacant eyes ✓
- pools of blue lagoon
- sheets of ice
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