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Quiz on GCSE Moon on the Tides , created by Delfi D on 09/02/2015.
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Question 1

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"farmers found them" - Mametz Wood
Answer
  • Personification
  • Alliteration
  • Simile
  • Metaphor

Question 2

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"the wasted young" - Mametz Wood
Answer
  • Double meaning
  • Juxtaposition
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Personification

Question 3

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"tended the land back into itself" - Mametz Wood
Answer
  • Personification
  • Metaphor
  • Sibilance
  • Assonance

Question 4

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"A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder bone" and "broken bird's egg of a skull" - Mametz Wood
Answer
  • Metaphor & personification
  • Simile & onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor & alliteration
  • Simile & juxtaposition

Question 5

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"the earth stands sentinel" - Mametz Wood
Answer
  • Metaphor & personification
  • Simile & personification
  • Metaphor & alliteration
  • Simile & alliteration

Question 6

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"broken mosaic of bone" and "paused mid dance-macabre" - Mametz Wood
Answer
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • Hyperbole
  • Metaphor

Question 7

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"the golden mosque ... there was blood on the walls" - The Yellow Palm
Answer
  • Double meaning
  • Juxtaposition
  • Simile
  • Alliteration

Question 8

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"the barbarian sun" - The Yellow Palm
Answer
  • Personification
  • Lexical choice
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Rhyme

Question 9

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"a slow and silver caravan / on its slow and silver mile" - The Yellow Palm
Answer
  • Alliteration
  • Personification
  • Lexical choice
  • Sibilance

Question 10

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"sweeter than salaams" - The Yellow Palm
Answer
  • Sibilance
  • Metaphor
  • Personification
  • Anthropomorphism

Question 11

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"It is your last check-in point in this country" is NOT a declarative statement. (At the Border, 1979)
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 12

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"The land continued under our feet, / divided by a thick iron chain." - At the Border, 1979
Answer
  • Juxtaposition
  • Metaphor
  • Chiastic structure
  • Personification

Question 13

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"My mother informed me: We are going home" - At the Border, 1979
Answer
  • Hyperbole
  • Caesura
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration

Question 14

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"She said the roads are much cleaner / the landscape is more beautiful / and people are much kinder." - At the Border, 1979
Answer
  • Metaphor
  • Power of 3
  • Hyperbole
  • Imagery

Question 15

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"'I can inhale home,'" and "A man bent down and kissed his muddy homeland" - At the Border, 1979
Answer
  • Lexical choice
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole

Question 16

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"We waited while our papers were checked, / our faces thoroughly inspected." is a PASSIVE use of language. (At the Border, 1979)
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 17

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"Left by the ebbing tide of battle" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Answer
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Lexical Choice
  • Personification

Question 18

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"Seizing her" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Answer
  • Lexical choice
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Personification
  • Simile

Question 19

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"an icy-amorous embrace" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Answer
  • Oxymoron
  • Alliteration
  • Simile
  • Metaphor

Question 20

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"swiftly severing" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Answer
  • Alliteration
  • Lexical choice
  • Oxymoron
  • Sibilance

Question 21

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"Waiting, whiling away the hour / Whittling" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Answer
  • Sibilance
  • Alliteration
  • Metaphor
  • Caesura

Question 22

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"shepherd's pipe" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Answer
  • Oxymoron
  • Metaphor
  • Juxtaposition
  • Simile

Question 23

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"Sleeps on, stirs not" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Answer
  • Sibilance
  • Personification
  • Hyperbole
  • Oxymoron

Question 24

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'that brings a nation to its knees' - Flag
Answer
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • Onomatopoeia

Question 25

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'that makes the guts of men grow bold' - Flag
Answer
  • Alliteration
  • Metaphor
  • Double meaning
  • Juxtaposition

Question 26

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'that will outlive the blood you bleed' - Flag
Answer
  • Second person
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • Alliteratioin

Question 27

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'What's that fluttering in a breeze?' (Flag) makes use of a verb in the PRESENT PARTICIPLE.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 28

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What is the purpose of the repetition of the indefinite article ('a') in 'Flag'?
Answer
  • Suggests that the flag could be anywhere showing that the power of patriotism is universal.
  • Helps to create an image of the flag in the reader's mind.

Question 29

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'Through a distant shot of a building burning' - Out of the Blue
Answer
  • Alliteration
  • Simile
  • Oxymoron
  • Indefinite article

Question 30

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Do you think you are watching, watching / a man shaking crumbs / or pegging out washing?' - Out of the Blue
Answer
  • Personification
  • Juxtaposition
  • Metaphor
  • Oxymoron

Question 31

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'The heat behind me is bullying, driving' - Out of the Blue
Answer
  • Repetition
  • Juxtaposition
  • Personification
  • Alliteration

Question 32

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'The depth is appalling. Appalling' - Out of the Blue
Answer
  • Repetition
  • Personification
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Caesura

Question 33

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'wind-milling, wheeling, spiralling, falling' - Out of the Blue
Answer
  • Sibilance
  • Lexical choice
  • Sentence structure
  • Repetition

Question 34

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'Sirens below are wailing, firing' - Out of the Blue
Answer
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Juxtaposition
  • Alliteration
  • Metaphor
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