Weekend PAHR Quiz

a shimmering 'a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling'

a

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor

Heavy-headed dahlias

b

Synecdoche

Personification

Alliteration

fluttering about in their holiday muslins like a flock of excited butterflies

b

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

Mr Whitehead the elderly English gardener and Tom the Irish groom

b

Imperial identities

Indigenous identities

anachronism

b

An object misplaced in time

Well suited for the environment

With her high­ piled greying pompadour and ample bosom, as rigidly controlled and disciplined as her private ambitions, the cameo portrait of her late husband flat on her respectable chest, the stately stranger looked precisely what the parents expected of an English Headmistress. [Mrs Appleyard is a caricature of whom]

c

King Charles

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Victoria

although Baby Jannie's home-grown cupid and row of pencilled kisses, addressed from Queensland in her father's large loving hand [How does this characterise Miranda?]

b

As someone who is loved and adored

As aloof

Edith Edith Horton, plain as a frog

a

A disparaging simile

An example of naturalism

'But darling Miranda - Reg Lumley is such a dreary creature!' laughed Irma, characteristically shaking out blue-black curls and idly wondering why the school straw hat was so unbecoming.

c

This characterises Irma as kind

This characterises Irma as captious

This characterises Irma as generous

Darling Miranda now gazing dreamily out at the sunlit garden.'What a wonderful day! I can hardly wait to get out into the country!' [which of the following describes Miranda's character?]

a

b

Miranda is characterised as an idealist

Miranda is captious

Miranda is characterised her as buoyant