Understanding dystopias | English | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

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What is a noun?
- A describing word.
- An action word.
- A punctuation type.
- A name, object or place. ✓
- A word that describes a verb.
What is a verb?
- A word to describe a noun.
- A word that tells us where something is.
- A word to describe how someone does something.
- An action word, that tells us what someone or something does. ✓
What is a simile?
- Saying something is something else.
- Using the same sound at the beginning of two consecutive words.
- When a word resembles the sound it makes.
- Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object.
- Comparing two things using the words 'like' or 'as'. ✓
What is a simple sentence?
- A sentence with a conjunction.
- A sentence with a subject and verb. ✓
- A sentence with ambitious punctuation.
- A sentence with an independent and subordinate clause.
- A sentence with only a verb.
Which literary technique is this? Directly comparing an object to another thing.
- Onomatopoeia
- Alliteration
- Pathetic fallacy
- Metaphor ✓
- Adverbial phrase
What is the purpose of an adverbial phrase?
- To add more information to the sentence. ✓
- To describe a noun.
- To compare two things.
- To make a sentence longer.
- To make a sentence shorter.

What is setting?
- A genre of text.
- The time and place that a story takes place. ✓
- The time period that a story takes place.
Which word means 'a bad and difficult place'?
- 'Dystopia' ✓
What is the opposite of dystopia?
- 'Utopia' ✓
Choose the main characteristics of dystopia.
- Freedom
- Suffering ✓
- Peace
- Nature
- Injustice ✓
Pick parts of our society that writers may want to show in their dystopian novels.
- Beauty of nature
- Inspirational people
- Homelessness ✓
- Equality
- Climate destruction ✓
Which sentences depict utopia vs. dystopia?
- Her stomach growled.
  
  ⇔
  
  Dystopia ✓
- They were trapped inside.
  
  ⇔
  
  Dystopia ✓
- The flowers glistened.
  
  ⇔
  
  Utopia ✓
- His hands were calloused.
  
  ⇔
  
  Dystopia ✓
- Everyone is welcome here.
  
  ⇔
  
  Utopia ✓
- Dark fog suffocated his mind.
  
  ⇔
  
  Dystopia ✓

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A dystopia is a fictional, futuristic society in which there is great suffering and injustice
The setting is the time and place in which a story takes place
The opposite of a dystopia is a utopia, which is an imagined place where everything is fair and perfect
Dystopian settings are often used to make a point about our current society

Pupils may mistake dystopia and utopia as the words are similar

Explicitly explain the difference between the two and explain that they are antonyms