Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' | English

Starter quiz

An unseen text is ______.
- a text you have written
- a text you are very familiar with
- a text you haven't seen before ✓
If there is a dominant image on an advert then it suggests ______.
- the image is important ✓
- the image is not important
- the advertiser created the image
We normally associate bright colours with ______.
- sadness
- happiness ✓
- neutrality
An extract is a ______.
- book cover
- small piece of a text ✓
- the full text
- a review of a text
If a writer repeats something then it's likely they want ______.
- to emphasise it ✓
- for you to forget it
- to let you know that it's not important
- for you to write it down
If a writer describes someone's heart as beating quickly which two emotions is the character likely to be feeling?
- calmness
- happiness ✓
- terror ✓
- boredom

What does an illustrator create that introduces a reader to a text?
- a blurb
- a review
- a book cover ✓
What does predict mean?
- to know what will happen in the future
- to say what you think will happen in the future ✓
- to explain why something happened in the past
What does infer mean?
- to form an opinion based on information ✓
- to repeat something to shows its importance
- to show how a character is feeling
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses is ______.
- a caesura
- enjambment
- anaphora ✓
- analogy
What is onomatopoeia?
- a word that resembles the sound it describes ✓
- where non-human things are given human characteristics
- the general mood or feeling of a text
- where a word has the same sound but a different meaning
Why might using onomatopoeia help a reader understand a text?
- it helps the reader understand the vocabulary
- it helps the reader hear how the scene sounds ✓
- it helps the reader see how the scene looks

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Book covers can be useful tools in making predictions about a text.
Use the first reading of an unseen extract to establish key information about plot, character and setting.
Next, read the text more closely to consider the meaning of specific words and phrases.

That you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

If we consider a literal book cover, it has been chosen to introduce the reader to the tone of the text.

Predict - to say what you think will happen in the future.
To infer - to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have.
Extract - a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.
Tone - the general mood or feeling of a text.