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English
'The Tempest'

Starter quiz

  • Which of the following are reasons to plan your essay before you begin writing?
    • It helps you organise your thoughts.  ✓
    • It helps you with your punctuation.
    • It helps you decide on your vocabulary,  ✓
  • Match the essay component with the definition.
    • Thesis statement
      ⇔
      Summarises overall argument ✓
    • Topic sentence
      ⇔
      Explains focus of paragraph ✓
    • Supporting detail
      ⇔
      Evidence from text ✓
  • Which of the following is an effective topic sentence?
    • Prospero calls Caliban a 'thing' and various other bad words.
    • Prospero's language towards Caliban presents his cruel treatment of him.  ✓
    • Prospero enslaved Caliban who had been living on the island before he arrived.
  • The feelings or emotions we get from a particular word are known as the...
    • connotations  ✓
    • etymology or root word
    • mood or tone
  • Explaining the connotations of a word and how they might affect the reader is known as ______ a quotation.
    • 'analysing' ✓
  • Match the quote from 'The Tempest' with the connotation it goes with.
    • slave
      ⇔
      someone owned by someone else ✓
    • filth
      ⇔
      something unclean ✓
    • thing
      ⇔
      something without feelings or emotions ✓
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