Starter quiz
- In 'Neutral Tones', the quotation "starving sod" is an example of which language technique?
- simile
- rhyme
- alliteration ✓
- assonance
- repetition
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- 'Neutral Tones' was written during the ______ era.
- Elizabethan
- Jacobean
- Victorian ✓
- Edwardian
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- Which of the following words completes this quote from 'Neutral Tones': "We stood by a pond that ______ day"?
- autumn
- winter ✓
- spring
- summer
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- Which two of these quotes from 'Neutral Tones' contain a simile?
- "the sun was white, as though chidden of God" ✓
- "some words played between us to and fro"
- "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing"
- "A grin of bitterness swept thereby / Like an ominous bird a-wing..." ✓
- "love deceives and wrings with wrong"
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- Hardy mentions two colours in 'Neutral Tones'. What are they?
- grey and white ✓
- black and red
- yellow and brown
- green and pink
- silver and gold
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- How many lines does 'Neutral Tones' have?
- 10
- 12
- 14
- 16 ✓
- 18
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