Year 10 English Revision

1.

1 point

When do the Time Traveller and his friends meet on the day of his return from the future?

Thursday

Christmas Eve

802, 701

2001

2.

1 point

Which is the correct spelling?

Virtue

Virtyou

Vertue

Vertyou

3.

1 point

Who is the narrator?

A friend of the Time Traveller

The quiet, bearded man

The Time Traveller

Filby

4.

1 point

Which of these does the Time Traveller not witness during his travels?

An ancient museum

Two races of futuristic people

A great battle

Enormous crab-like creatures

5.

1 point

Who is most famous for writing sonnets?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

William Shakespeare

Siegfried Sassoon

John McCrae

6.

1 point

Which is the correct spelling?

Ilogy

Ideodology

Ideology

Idology

7.

1 point

What is an exaggeration also called?

Hyperbole

Assonance

Slang

Metaphor

8.

1 point

Which is an example of a simile?

The car purred

Suddenly she screamed, staring at the screen

Ba-dum tchh went the falling drum kit

The cat ran across the room like a spider

9.

1 point

Which is the correct spelling?

Intertextuallity

Intretextuality

Intertexality

Intertextuality

10.

1 point

Which sentence is an example of a compound sentence?

The winner collected her prize

Jason needed his daily dose of chocolate to ensure prolonged concentration

Evie travelled to the tennis, but she did not get the best seat because the train was late

He walked to the front of the theatre, but could not climb the steps

11.

1 point

Olfactory imagery creates which sense?

Smell

Sight

Touch

Taste

12.

1 point

Which is the correct spelling?

Antithesis

Antethesis

Anthesis

Intithesis

13.

1 point

"The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight that has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume; but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun." is an example of what?

Hyperbole

Verbosity

Metaphor

Syzygy

14.

1 point

"The cool wind, the warm sun" is an example of which kind of imagery?

Visual

Organic

Auditory

Olfactory

15.

1 point

How many lines are in a quatrain

3

2

5

4