The British Voting System and System og Government
The last general election
Parliament
Figures in speech
Figures in speech
100
The Head of State and the person who has to sign laws in order for them to be effective.
Who is Elizabeth II - The Queen?
100
The party that won the election.
What is the Tory Party?
100
The abbreviation for a member of parliament
What is an MP?
100
Figure of emphasis/sound that occurs through the repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.
What is alliteration?
100
Ok, not quite figures in speech but what is the English term for "Appelformer"?
What are modes of persuasion?
200
The title of the person who is the leader of the political party that wins the election
Who is the Prime Minister?
200
The year and month when the last election was held in Britain.
What is Thursday, 6 May 2010?
200
The number of seats in the House of Commons - also the number of constituencies in the UK
What is 649?
200
Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses
What is anaphora?
200
Figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
300
This is how often there has to be a general election in England
What is every five years?
300
The number of MPs that the Tories won in the last UK general election
What is 306?
300
The house in Parliament in which all members are elected at general elections.
What is the House of Commons
300
When two opposites are juxtaposed in a sentence, paragraph or a whole text.
What is antithesis?
300
Figure which asks a question, not for the purpose of further discussion, but to assert or deny an answer implicitly; a question whose answer is obvious or implied
What is a rhetorical question?
400
The electoral system used in the UK for general elections in which a candidate becomes a member of Parliament by gaining more votes than any rival in that constituency.
What is First Past the Post?
400
The number of seats that Labour won in the last general election in the UK.
What is 258?
400
The house in Parliament which can only suggest changes to bills but not propose bills itself.
What is the House of Lords?
400
Figure of repetition in which words or phrases or sentences are arranged in order of increasing intensity or importance, often in parallel construction; words or phrases arranged by degrees of increasing significance.
What is climax?
400
Figure of repetition in which the first and last word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence are repeated in one or more successive phrases, clauses, or sentences; repetition of the first and last words in a clause over successive clauses.
What is symploce?
500
The electoral system in which the outcome of the election reflects the proportion of support gained by each competing party.
What is proportional representation?
500
The term for the situation when neither major political party has an absolute majority of seats in Parliament.
What is hung parliament?
500
That which is made up of about 20 senior ministers chosen by the Prime Minister. It decides on government policy and co-ordinates the work of the different government departments.
What is the Cabinet?
500
Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is repeated one or more times at the end of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.
What is epistrophe?
500
Figure which represents abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities, including physical, emotional, and spiritual; the application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities.
What is personification?
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