Word types
Techniques
HDM
AMND
Fasting and Furious: The Need for Eid
100

Name five synonyms of 'sad'.

Depressed

Down

Mournful

Blue

Tearful

100

What is personification?

Giving a non-human object human characteristics.

100

List five elements of stagecraft.

Setting

Lighting

Sound

Stage directions: gestures, expressions, movements, entry, exit

Costume

Props

100

Where is the play set?

Ancient Athens

100

In what year was the first Ramadhan?

15 C.E

525 C.E

624 C.E

1991 C.E

624 C.E

200

Name five synonyms of 'happy'.

Joyful

Ecstatic

Content

Pleased

Cheery

200

What is a simile?

A comparative device using 'as' or like'.

200

What is a monologue?

When one character speaks at length. 

200

How does Helena betray Hermia's trust in Act 1 Scene 1?

She goes and tell Demetrius that Hermia and Lysander plan to run away into the woods. 

200

Ramadhan is which month of the Islamic calendar?

First

Seventh

Ninth

Twelfth

Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.

300

List five abstract nouns. 

happiness

comfort

romance

negativity

joy

300

What is sibilance?

Define and give an example.

The repetition of the 's' sound.

The seething crowds swallowed them up.

300

What is the real name of the golden compass?

What does it communicate with?

Aleithiometer

Dust

300

What does Oberon get Puck to do so that he could manipulate Titania?

To get the juice from the flower 'love-in-idleness' so he could put it in the eyes of Titania. 

300

During Eid, people wish each other 'Eid Mubarak'. 

Frim which language does this greeting come and what is the literal translation?

Arabic

'Blessed celebration'

Eid = feast / celebration /festival

Mubarak = blessed

400

List five imperative verbs / sentences

Stop!

Go!

Shut up!

Run!

Be quiet!

400

What is the difference between a direct and an implied metaphor?

A direct metaphor states that something is something else: The past is a different country.

An implied metaphor make a comparison without specifically naming the thing being described: The witch that runs the corner shop short-changed me again.

400

State the name or the animal of the following character's daemons:

Lyra

Roger

Mrs. Coulter

Lord Asriel

Lyra: Pantalaimon

Roger: Salcilia

Mrs. Coulter: the golden monkey

Lord Asriel: Stelmaria, the snow leopard

400
Tudor England was a patriarchal society. 

List three ways in which patriarchy is displayed in AMND. 

Oberon over Titania

Egeus over Hermia

Demetrius over Helena

Theseus over Hermia and Hippolyta

400

Iceland has one of the longest fasting periods in Ramadhan 2024. How long is it?

20 hours and 4 minutes

17 hours and 26 minutes 

16 hours and 49 minutes 

16 hours and 44 minutes

17 hours and 26 minutes - Greenland - where there is only one Muslim

16 hours and 49 minutes - Alaska

16 hours and 44 minutes - Iceland

500

What are the seven coordinating conjunctions?

For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

500

Write a simile that includes one sound device. 

The outer layer of the cake crackled and popped like a dry summer seed as she cut into it. 

Crackled - onomatopoeia

Cake crackled - consonant 'c'

Summer seed - alliteration

500

Who is the leader of thy gyptians?

John Faa

500

What is iambic pentameter?

What is the effect?

10 syllable line of da DUM pattern

Reflects heartbeat which could show love or fear.

500

The shortest fasting window in 2024 is 12 hours and 44 minutes. But where is it?

Kalimantan, Indonesia

Beirut, Lebanon

Puerto Montt, Chile

Adelaide, Australia


Puerto Montt, Chile