What is the nickname David's mother calls him when he is a child?
100
THEMES
What's the term for the novel's overall concerns and areas of interest?
100
COMMAS IN PARENTHESIS
What is a typical way Dickens uses punctuation to add extra, colourful details into sentences?
100
1837
What is the year when Oliver Twist was first published?
200
A CHIMNEY-SWEEP
What is Oliver's first job upon leaving the workhouse?
200
JANE MURDSTONE
What is the full name of David's step-aunt?
200
SEMANTIC FIELDS
What is the term for patterns of words?
200
SEMI-COLONS
What is a type of punctuation which Dickens often uses as commas to break up longer clauses in a manner that we would often judge as incorrect today?
200
TWELVE YEARS
How many years was David Copperfield published before Dickens' death in 1870?
300
CLAYPOLE INSULTS OLIVER'S MOTHER
Why does Oliver cause a fight at the undertaker's house?
300
SALEM HOUSE
What is the name of the school David is sent away to in London?
300
HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS
What is it called when you look for synonyms and inflected forms of words to see if there are any which occur often?
300
HYPERBOLE
What is the term for Dickens' use of exaggeration to create grotesque or comic characters?
300
MARSHALSEA DEBTOR'S PRISON
What is the name of the prison Dickens' father was sent to when Dickens was eleven?
400
A HANDKERCHIEF
What is the keepsake that Rose gives to Nancy and Nancy holds up when Bill Sikes attacks her?
400
A DEBTOR'S PRISON
What is the place Mr Micawber is taken to when he is arrested?
400
COLLOCATION
What is the name for when you look for standard phrases such as 'I don't know' or 'hang on'?
400
INTERJECTIONS
What is the term for Dickens' use of interruptions in his sentences as he piles up phrases and clauses?
400
EDWIN DROOD
What is the title of Dickens' last, and unfinished, novel?
500
AUNT
What relationship does Rose Maylie turn out to be to Oliver?
500
A BABY
What is the word lots of the other characters use to describe Clara, David's mother?
500
CONCORDANCE
What is the name for when you identify an interesting word and look for patterns in the words and synonyms around that word, wherever it should appear in the text?
500
MOTIFS
What is the term for Dickens' use of repeated images?