Imaginative Writing Retrieval Quiz

Identify the language technique used in the following sentence.

The room was as cold and official as a courtroom.

• Metaphor

• Verbs

• Personification

• Simile

What is the most accurate definition of the language device 'personification'?

• When the weather is described.

• When you compare something to something else using 'like' or 'as'.

• A word which describes the actions of something.

• The attribution of human characteristics to something non-human.

Which sentence uses personification effectively?

• The mountains were tall and gigantic.

• The mountains shielded the lake and the little village.

• The mountains were as tall as a skyscrapers.

• The mountains were overbearing statues.

'Glittering shards of glass danced below capturing the reflections of patchy snow.'

How would you describe the mood in the sentence above?

• Pleasant and calm.

• Ominous and tense.

• Exciting and heart racing.

• Unusual and strange.

Select the list of verbs which create an unsettling mood.

• Danced, smiled and disrupted.

• Smacked, screamed and glared

• Appeared, hurried and sauntered.

• Ran, spoke and settled. 

What are evocative verbs?

• Verbs which are animal related.

• Descriptions.

• Verbs in the past tense.

• Verbs which evoke a certain image, emotion or memory.

What must you establish at the start of a narrative?

• The rising action

• The climax

• The exposition

• The falling action

How is pathetic fallacy different from personification?

• They are the opposites.

• Pathetic fallacy is always about the weather but personification is not.

• They are both the same.

• Pathetic fallacy is the description of setting with human emotions rather than simply actions like personification.

What is a cyclical narrative ending?

• When the narrative ends with the same setting, idea or even words as the beginning.

• When the ending is left open to the readers' interpretation.

• The narrative ends with a moral lesson.

• The narrative ends with the image of a circle.

Complete the following sentence.

Describing a character's eyes is an effective way to suggest ideas about their...

• setting.

• emotions.

• personality.

• team.