Non-Fiction IGCSE Edexcel Texts - Part 1

Where is Passage to Africa based?

• Uganda

• Wakanda

• Somalia

• Zimbabwe

Finish this quote " the smell of decaying...

• Fish

• Flesh

• Organs

• Humans

What was the name of the author who wrote Passage to Africa?

• Ngozi Adichie

• George Alagiah

• Aron Ralston

• Emma Levine

Finish this quote " Putrid....

• Bear

• Pear

• Air

• Fair

Which short sentence is in the text Passage to Africa?

• Damiba was fried

• Habiba had died

• We were stuck

• Where's the truck?

"the smell that drew me to her doorway, the smell of decaying flesh." is an example of what?

• anaphora

• simile

• parallelism

• metaphor

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• "the boulder crushes my right hand"

• "Fear shoots my hands over my head"

• "Men battering seals for their fur"

• "a famine of quiet suffering"

The quote, "no compassion, no understanding, no humanity" does NOT contain which device?

• rule of three

• emotive language

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

"horns tooting, bells ringing" is an example of what?

• onomatopoeia

• gustatory imagery

• contrast

• allusion

Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing?

• "chaotic clatter of wings and feet and talons"

• "Don't want you going home with the wrong bird"

• "Time went by relentlessly and it was Saturday again"

• "Their poverty was my single story of them"