Starter quiz
- The emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader is known as the ______.
- mood ✓
- purpose
- atmosphere
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- Descriptive writing is designed to ______.
- help the reader visualise the scene ✓
- help the reader draw the scene
- help the reader write about the scene themselves
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- Which word best suits the general mood of wonder?
- haze
- mystery
- astonish ✓
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- A metaphor is ______.
- a comparison using 'like' or 'as'
- a comparison where something is something else ✓
- where non-human things or objects are given human characteristics
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- Which of the following is a metaphor?
- 'Her eyes were stars in the dimming gloom.' ✓
- 'Her eyes were like stars in the dimming gloom.'
- 'The stars twinkled in the dimming gloom.'
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- A complex sentence is ______.
- two main clauses joined together with a semicolon
- a main clause and at least one subordinate clause ✓
- a sentence with a subject, verb and complete thought
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