Grammar quiz (WJEC)

Borrowed from the WJEC teacher's resources. To help with english as level scomparing poetyr with an unseen text. 

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What is a stanza made of four lines called?
quatrain
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What is the turning point in a sonnet called
volta
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What type of foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?
iambic
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What is a caesura?
A mid-line pause
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What type of sentence is ‘The students passed the exam."?
simple
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What name is given to a list without conjunctions?
asyndetic
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What is foregrounding?
Re-arrangement of word or an opening elementder to focus on
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What type of rhyme follows an abab pattern?
alternate
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What are the words "too" and "so"?
intensifiers
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"Can't" is an example of which
elision
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"Proud PM punches pitbull" is an example of what type of alliteration?
plosive
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What is it called when common nouns are given proper noun status?
non-standard capitalisation
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What is the turning point in a sonnet called

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volta

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What type of foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?

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What is a caesura?

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What type of sentence is ‘The students passed the exam."?

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