Starter quiz
- Charles Dickens wrote his account of Greenwich Fair in 1839, as such it is an example of...
- Victorian literature ✓
- Elizabethan literature
- Jacobean literature
- Shakespearean literature
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- What does it mean to get the 'gist' of a piece of writing?
- To understand the main essence or point of a piece of writing. ✓
- To be able to predict what happens in a piece of writing.
- To be able to analyse a piece of writing confidently.
- To link different different quotes from a piece of writing together.
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- What methods are being used here: "...add to this the screams of women, the shouts of boys, the clanging of gongs, the firing of pistols, the ringing of bells, the bellowings of speaking-trumpets"
- listing ✓
- onomatopoeia ✓
- simile
- alliteration
- direct address
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- What is being described here: 'the words, ideas, feelings or concepts we associate with a word or symbol.'?
- 'connotations' ✓
- What is being described here: 'a conclusion you reach by applying logic to the evidence you are given.'?
- inference ✓
- reference
- occurence
- consequence
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- When writing inferences, which of the options below could be useful synonyms for ‘this suggests’?
- this implies ✓
- this illustrates ✓
- this confirms
- this concludes
- this hints at ✓
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