Year 10 LIVE QUIZ

Which narrative point of view is shown in the passage:

The bus picks up students in groups of four or five. As they walk down the aisle, people who were my middle-school lab partners or gym buddies glare at me. I close my eyes. This is what I've been dreading.

• first person

• second person

• third person

Jonas went to his own desk and began to sort through his school papers for the evening's assignment. But his mind was still on December and the coming Ceremony. Though he had been reassured by the talk with his parents, he hadn't the slightest idea what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future, or how he might feel about it when the day came.

• first person

• second person

• third person

The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves... The people around you are growing restless from waiting, a sea of shuffling feet, murmuring about abandoning the endeavour in search of someplace warmer to pass the evening. You yourself are debating departing when it happens.

• first person

• second person

• third person

Which figurative language device is used below:

Various technologies have been developed to help militaries easily identify their own forces, and thus reduce incidents of friendly fire.

• euphemism

• hyperbole

Which figurative language device is used here:

I can resist everything except temptation - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

• oxymoron

• paradox

Which figure of speech is used in this text?

After spending weeks in Sydney, Kirra was a bit unnerved by the deafening silence of her small hometown.

• oxymoron

• euphemism

Which figurative language device is used below:

When Derek finally agreed to let his daughter adopt the stray dog, she responded with a smile that was a mile wide.

• hyperbole

• paradox

Which figure of speech is used below:

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination - John Lennon

• Paradox

• Euphemism

Which figure of speech is used below:

The salesperson tried hard to convince Ryan that the jacket was a good buy; after all, it was made of genuine imitation leather.

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Complete the sentence so that it uses personification:

The weathered shed int he backyard was __________________

• broken beyond repair

• slumped over in defeat