Year 9: The Gothic - Quiz 3

What is the technical term for the use of weather to reflect a character's mood/atmosphere in a story?

• pathetic fallacy

• metaphor

• sibilance

• personification

What technique is used in this example: 'Thunder grumbled menacingly as the storm came into life.'

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

What technique is used in this example: 'Lightning struck the castle as if Zeus was punishing those inside.'

• sibilance

• allusion

• pathetic fallacy

• metaphor

The repeated use of an s or s sound (clue: creates an almost hissing sound)

• Personification

• Anaphora

• Sibilance

• Caesura

A word that sounds like what it is describing

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Sibilance

• Emotive language

Giving human characteristics to something non-human

• Animating

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Power words

Using words to make the reader feel sad, angry, happy etc.

• Emotive language

• Statistic

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Which TWO words are adjectives?

• grotesque

• bleak

• isolation

• apprehension

Which of these is an example of personification?

• Her heart was a drum.

• Her heart beat hard like a drum.

• Her heart thumped against her ribs repeatedly.

What type of sentence is this one: 'The sky was a miserable grey.'

• simple sentence

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• sentence fragment