English revision 11/12/23

Question 1

Theme

Answer 1

Word class - Noun
Definition - The subject of a talk, piece of writing, exhibition
Examples - The theme of history homework was castles..

Question 2

Settings

Answer 2

Word class - Noun
Definition - The place or type of surroundings
Examples - The forest was dark and wet.

Question 3

Fictional

Answer 3

Word class - Adjective
Definition - A piece of text which is made up
Examples - Harry Potter

Question 4

Mystery

Answer 4

Word class - Noun
Definition - Something hard or impossible to explain
Examples - Knifes out

Question 5

Bildungsroman

Answer 5

Word class - Noun
Definition - A novel with one person’s formative years

Question 6

Simile

Answer 6

To compare one thing to another thing

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

To say one thing is another thing

Question 8

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 8

The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals

Question 9

Perspective

Answer 9

The way someone sees something or their view on it..

Question 10

Omniscient narrator

Answer 10

An ‘all-knowing’ kind of narrator very commonly found in works of fiction written as third-person narratives

Question 11

Flashback

Answer 11

A scene from a film/story that is set in a time before the main story.

Question 12

Nouns, verbs and adjectives

Answer 12

Noun - A person, place or thing
Verb - A doing word or state of being
Adjectives - A word to describe a noun

Question 13

Gothic characters

Answer 13

Silas he is secretive and he keeps himself to himself. He is a mysterious and isolated type of person

Question 14

Gothic settings

Answer 14

Graveyard. It is an isolated setting often described at night when darkness can hide things. Scary and creepy.

Question 15

Gothic events

Answer 15

A creepy event that can impact the reader. These can happen with no notice.