Reading - The Details - Summary Questions.

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Choice of Vocabulary

Figurative Language

Figurative Language Part 2

Mood

Layout and Structure

Stories

Characterisation

Poems

Poetry Conventions

Poetry Conventions Part 2

Comparing Texts

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Question: A text book on astrophysics will use: a) simple, easy language. b) technical language. c) slang.
Answer: B, technical language.
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Question: List three figurative language techniques
Answer: Any 3 from: Imagery, Onomatopoeia, Similes, Exaggeration, Personification, Metaphors, or Alliteration.
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Question: Decide whether the following sentences are similes or metaphors: A) The palms or her hands were sandpaper.
Answer A: Metaphor.
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B) He was a beast with the ball.
Answer B: Metaphor.
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C) The car was like an oven.
Answer C: Simile.
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D) The snow lay over the fields like a white blanket.
Answer D: Simile.
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Question: What is personification?
Answer: When something is described as if it's a person or an animal.
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Question: Which words in these sentences are examples of onomatopoeia?
See next 3 cards.
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A) The snake hissed unhappily as they looked at it through the glass.
Answer: Yes.
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B) They uncorked the bottle of champagne with a load pop.
Answer: No.
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C) The collection of tins clanged and clattered in the boot of the car.
Answer: Yes.
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Question: What is the effect of using short words or short, sharp sentences in a text?
Answer: It helps create a feeling of tension.
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Question: Recipies should never use numbered points. True or false?
Answer: False.
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Question: Subheadings usually make a page more complicated to understand. True or false?
Answer: False.
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Question: Billy Bigboots says that a plot always needs a middle, but it can sometimes do without a beginning or an end. Is he right?
Answer: No, you need all 3.
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Question: Is a haiku: A) A flower related to the orchid, B) A type of short poem, or C) A really long Japanese song?
Answer: B.
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Question: Each verse in a poem always has a different pattern of syllables and a different rhyme pattern. True or False?
Answer: False.
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Question: What's a stanza?
Answer: Another word for a verse - a group of lines in a poem.
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Question; Can you pair up the rhyming words out of: Mane, gate, mine, main, tea, see, straight, and fine?
Answer: Mane and main. Gate and straight. Mine and fine. And tea and see.
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Question: A rhyming couplet is only made up of two lines. True or false?
Answer: True.
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Question: Why might a poet repeat a word in a line or verse?
Answer: To emphasise points in their poems.
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Question: Lara McLaughalot says, "A metre is a hundred centimetres. It's nothing to do with poetry." Is she right?
Answer: No, metre is also the name for the rhythm and syllable pattern of a poem.
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Question: When comparing texts you should: A) Write about each text one at a time or B) write about the texts at the same time, making links between them.
Answer: B.
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Card 2

Front

Question: List three figurative language techniques

Back

Answer: Any 3 from: Imagery, Onomatopoeia, Similes, Exaggeration, Personification, Metaphors, or Alliteration.

Card 3

Front

Question: Decide whether the following sentences are similes or metaphors: A) The palms or her hands were sandpaper.

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

B) He was a beast with the ball.

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

C) The car was like an oven.

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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