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100

Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?

Edgar Allan Poe

100

Identify the language technique:

The river shone like a satin ribbon. 

Simile

100

A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine.

The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart

100

What sort of text has a name derived from the Latin verb discurrere which means “to run about”, 

Discursive texts

100

What is a semaphore?

The use of an apparatus to create a visual signal transmitted over distance (such as flags, arm movements etc)

200

Who wrote The Book Thief?

Markus Zusak

200

Identify the language technique:

The fire was a hungry beast, consuming all that lay before it. 

Metaphor

200

The trouble is, who could ever replace me?

Death in The Book Thief

200

What is it called when a narrator's telling of events is inaccurate or questionable?

Unreliable narrator

200

In The Things They Carried, what did Norman Bowker carry that was given to him as a gift by Mitchell Sanders?

A thumb 

300

Who wrote The Things They Carried?

Tim O'Brien

300

Identify the language technique:

Five farmers fixed the fence.

Alliteration

300

Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.

The narrator in Eveline.

300

What word is given to the high point of the action in a narrative?

Climax

300

From the Book Thief:

First the colours.

Then the _________ (?)

That's usually how I see things.

Humans

400

Who wrote the short story, Eveline?

James Joyce

400

Identify the language technique:

Winter crept across the land, stealing the leaves from the trees.

Personification

400

I woke up feeling like death. Ironically appropriate, given what the day held in store.

The narrator, Claudia Valentine, in The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender

400

What name is given to the narrative style that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete ideas, unusual syntax, and rough grammar. 

Stream of Consciousness

400

What word is given to the arrangement of words, clauses and phrases to make sentences.

Syntax

500

Who wrote the poem, Small Rituals?

Katherine Gallagher

500

Identify the language technique:

My uncle hunkered under the umbrella until there was a lull in the thunder.

Assonance

500

This is the hottest summer I can remember, and the thick heat seems to seep in and keep in my sleepout. It's like the earth's core in here. The only relief comes from the cooler air that creeps in between the slim slats of my single window.

The narrator, Charlie Bucktin, in Jasper Jones

500

How old was the boy mentioned in the poem, Small Rituals, by Katherine Gallagher?

Thirteen

500

In the short story, Eveline, where was Frank going to take Eveline?

Buenos Aires 

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