Starter quiz
- Verne's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' is an example of what genre?
- horror
- romance
- science fiction ✓
- gothic
- crime
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- The words 'I' and 'my' are ______ pronouns.
- 'personal' ✓
- An exclamative is a sentence which ...
- asks a question.
- conveys strong emotion. ✓
- conveys a fact or piece of information.
- gives a direct command.
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- Match the example sentence with the sentence type.
- How did we get here?⇔Interrogative ✓
- Take cover now.⇔Imperative ✓
- It's behind you!⇔Exclamative ✓
- The lamps were broken.⇔Declarative ✓
- What might you associate with a desert?
- emptiness ✓
- humidity
- lack of water ✓
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- Which of the following is a synonym for 'dry'?
- dessicated ✓
- withered ✓
- drenched
- water-logged
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Exit quiz
- 'A sentence that makes a statement, provides a fact, offers an explanation, or conveys information' is the definition of a ______ sentence.
- 'declarative' ✓
- Which sentence type ends in a question mark?
- imperative
- interrogative ✓
- exclamative
- declarative
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- Which of the following does Verne not use to convey the rising tension and Axel's helplessness in 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'?
- declarative
- interrogative
- exclamative
- imperative ✓
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- Match the sentence with the sentence type.
- declarative⇔"No words in any human language can depict my utter despair." ✓
- interrogative⇔"...how had I lost the course of the flowing stream?" ✓
- exclamative⇔"It was indeed a position to drive the sanest man to madness!" ✓
- 'The most intense, exciting or important point of something; the culmination' is the definition of which word beginning with 'c'?
- 'climax' ✓
- Starting with the first, put the sentence types in the same order Verne has structured his sentence types to show rising tension in 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'.
- 1⇔declarative
- 2⇔interrogative
- 3⇔exclamative
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Key learning points
- To write a description that shows rising tension you might open with an emotionally charged declarative sentence.
- You might follow that with consecutive interrogative sentences that use personal pronouns.
- You might then end on a repeated exclamatory fragment that finishes on an emotionally charged word.
Common misconception
You should use exclamative sentences all the way through your writing to show tension.
It can be more effective to begin with declarative sentences and progress to exclamative sentences to show the rising tension.
Keywords
Declarative - a sentence that makes a statement, provides a fact, offers an explanation or conveys information
Interrogative - a sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark
Exclamative - a statement that expresses strong emotion and typically ends with an exclamation mark
Imperative - a sentence that gives a direct command or instruction
Climax - the most intense, exciting or important point of something; the culmination
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