Eng revision

Question 1

How many lines are in a Sonnet?

Answer 1

14

Question 2

What is the term used for the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words?

Answer 2

Alliteration

Question 2

What is the term for a comparison using like or as?

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

What is the main theme in John Steinbeck‘s of mice and men?

Answer 3

Friendship

Question 4

What is the setting of mice and men?

Answer 4

Soledad California

Question 5

What do you call a poem that tells a story?

Answer 5

Narrative

Question 6

What is the recurring idea or image in a text called?

Answer 6

Motif

Question 7

What type of irony involves a discrepancy between what a character says and what the audience knows to be true?

Answer 7

Dramatic irony

Question 8

What do we call a speech given by a character alone on stage?

Answer 8

Soliloquy

Question 8

What is the term for the overall atmosphere or feeling in a literary work?

Answer 8

Mood

Question 9

Who wrote of mice and men?

Answer 9

John Steinbeck

Question 10

What is the term for exaggerating statements? Not meant to be taken literally?

Answer 10

Hyperbole

Question 11

What do we call the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?

Answer 11

Symbolism

Question 12

What form of poetry does not have a regular rhyme or rhyme scheme?

Answer 12

Free verse

Question 13

What is the term for an indirect or passing reference to another text or historical event?

Answer 13

Allusion

Question 14

What is a technique used to give human qualities to animals or object?

Answer 14

Personification

Question 15

Who wrote Sonnet 116?

Answer 15

William Shakespeare

Question 16

What does Sonnet 116 say true love is not affected by?

Answer 16

Time

Question 17

In ‘if-‘, what does the speaker encourage keeping when others are losing theirs?

Answer 17

Head

Question 18

What feeling does the poem piano evoke?

Answer 18

Nostalgia

Question 19

In ‘half past two’, what is the child unable to understand?

Answer 19

Time

Question 20

Who is George’s companion of mice and men?

Answer 20

Lenny

Question 21

What type of figurative language uses like or as to compare to things?

Answer 21

Simile

Question 22

What time describes a struggle between opposing forces in a story?

Answer 22

Conflict

Question 23

In Of Mice and Men, what is the name of the old swamper with a missing hand?

Answer 23

candy

Question 24

What is the term for descriptive language that appeals to the senses?

Answer 24

imagery

Question 25

What is the narrative perspective of Of Mice and Men?

Answer 25

Third-person

Question 26

What literary device is used to hint at future events in a story?

Answer 26

Foreshadowing

Question 27

What term describes the way an author develops a character?

Answer 27

Characterisation

Question 28

What is the name of the ranch boss's son in Of Mice and Men?

Answer 28

Curley

Question 29

What is the term for an implied comparison without using 'like' or 'as"?

Answer 29

Metaphor

Question 30

Who is the only black character in Of Mice and Men?

Answer 30

Crooks

Question 31

What is the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry called?

Answer 31

Assonance

Question 32

What is the term for giving inanimate objects human characteristics?

Answer 32

Personification

Question 33

What is the term for a series of words that start with the same consonant sound?

Answer 33

Alliteration

Question 33

What is the attitude of the writer towards the subject called?

Answer 33

Tone

Question 34

What is a three-line stanza in poetry called?

Answer 34

Tercet

Question 34

What do we call a pause in the middle of a line of poetry?

Answer 34

Caesura

Question 35

What do you call a break in a poem's formal structure or meter?

Answer 35

Enjambment

Question 36

What is the regular pattern of rhyme at the end of lines in a poem called?

Answer 36

Rhyme scheme

Question 37

What is the beat or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?

Answer 37

Rhythm

Question 38

What is the name of the town George and Lennie flee from at the beginning of the novel?

Answer 38

Weed

Question 39

What is the term for the use of opposite ideas close together for effect?

Answer 39

Juxtaposition

Question 40

What does Lennie carry in his pocket at the beginning of the novel?

Answer 40

Mouse

Question 41

What is the term for a repeated word or phrase in a poem?

Answer 41

Refrain

Question 42

What is Slim's role on the ranch in Of Mice and Men?

Answer 42

Jerkline Skinner

Question 43

Who offers to contribute money to buy the farm with George and Lennie?

Answer 43

Candy

Question 44

What is the term for repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity?

Answer 44

Consonance

Question 45

What dream does Curley's wife reveal to Lennie?

Answer 45

Actress

Question 46

What type of poem mourns the loss of someone or something?

Answer 46

Elegy

Question 47

What does the ranch symbolise in the novel?

Answer 47

Isolation