English

Question 1

What is a Simile?

Answer 1

A comparison using like or as

Question 2

What is Personification?

Answer 2

Giving an object human qualities

Question 3

What is an Alliteration?

Answer 3

Words that begin with the same sound repeated within close proximity

Question 4

What is Sibilance?

Answer 4

Repetition of “s” sounds within close proximity

Question 5

What is Consonance?

Answer 5

Repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity

Question 6

What is Assonance?

Answer 6

Repetition of vowel sounds within close proximity

Question 7

What is a Soliloquy?

Answer 7

When a character speaks to him/herself and the audience

Question 8

What are Tragic Protagonists?

Answer 8

Protagonists in a tragedy

Question 9

What is an Antagonist?

Answer 9

An enemy of adversary

Question 10

What is an Extended Metaphor?

Answer 10

A metaphor containing greater detail

Question 11

What is a monologue?

Answer 11

A monologue is a long speech which is spoken by one person

Question 12

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 12

Something said by the character that the audience understands but the characters don’t

Question 13

What is Unequited love?

Answer 13

When you love someone but they don’t love you back

Question 14

What is hubris?

Answer 14

Arrogant pride

Question 15

What is Impetuous

Answer 15

To act quickly or suddenly without thinking or being careful

Question 16

What is Volatile?

Answer 16

A situation that is volatile is likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly

Question 17

What is a semantic field?

Answer 17

A group of words.
Examples can be in football with ‘corner’,’ ‘freekick’ and ‘yellow card’.

Question 18

Isolation

Answer 18

The process or fact of isolating or being isolated. (Being alone / apart
from others.

Question 19

Loneliness

Answer 19

Sadness because one has no friends or company.

Question 20

Racism

Answer 20

Racism is the belief that people of some races are inferior to others, and
the behaviour which is the result of this belief.

Question 21

Segregation

Answer 21

The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

Question 22

Nomadic

Answer 22

A person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or
better living conditions.

Question 23

Cyclical

Answer 23

Occurring in cycles; recurrent.

Question 24

Hierarchy

Answer 24

A system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked
according to relative status or authority.

Question 25

Marginalisation

Answer 25

To marginalize a group of people means to make them feel isolated and
unimportant.

Question 26

American Dream

Answer 26

The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American,
allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.

Question 27

The Great Depression

Answer 27

A long and severe recession in an economy or market.

Question 28

The Dust Bowl

Answer 28

An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust
and eroded, especially because of drought or unsuitable farming
practice.

Question 29

Adjective

Answer 29

A word used to describe a noun

Question 30

Adverb

Answer 30

A word used to describe a verb

Question 31

Verb

Answer 31

A doing word

Question 32

Noun

Answer 32

An object, place or person

Question 33

Pronoun

Answer 33

Words used to replace nouns

Question 34

Determiner

Answer 34

Words that come before a noun