Y7 Joy Miss P Chp 5

Have you read Chapter 5?

• Yes

• No

What point of view is 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' told from?

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person

• 1st Person

• It changes

What language is an 'almost-too-perfect morning'?

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Answer explanation

Almost: [not quite] + too [high level (negative)] + perfect [subjective (positive)]

'The wind-bent boughs of trees were frozen in place. The sky was a photograph of arrested flames licking a cloud bank.' - The night the bomb fell.

What are the THREE (3) types of figurative language in the above sentences?

• Personification

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

"I began to feel unusual. I imagined I was being watched; that the children were still here, preserved like the bog boy, inside the walls. I could feel them peering at me through cracks and knotholes."

Explain how the author utilises imagery.

"I saw what remained of the trunk. It had shattered like a giant egg, its pieces all mixed up in a heap of debris and smashed floorboards. Scattered throughout were little pieces of paper. It looked like I’d found a box of letters, after all! But then, squinting, I could make out shapes on them—faces, bodies—and that’s when I realized they weren’t letters at all, but photographs. Dozens of them. I got excited—and then just as quickly went cold, because something dreadful occurred to me."

Q: What had Jacob INITIALLY thought he found, and what had he ACTUALLY found?

• Letters; Newspaper clippings

• Letters; worksheets

• Letters; risqué drawings

• Letters; photographs

"I'm as thirsty as a bloody mermaid," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

What did Jacob find in the glass jars in the basement?

• Vegetables

• Fruits

• Organs

• Jam

"The man was an emotional Fort Knox," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Answer explanation

Fort Knox: USA giant vault that stores gold bars

What was Jacob's grandfather's full name?

• Abraham Ezra Portman

• Abe Raham Portman

• Abraham Abe Portman

• Abraham Ezra Port