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The 3 common narrative tenses are: past simple, past continuous and past perfect.

• True

• False

This narrative tense is used to introduce the story:

• Past simple

• Past continuous

• Past perfect

This narrative tense is used to talk about the main events in the story:

• past simple

• past continuous

• past participle

This narrative tense is used to talk about background/secondary events in the story:

• Past simple

• Past continuous

• Past perfect

This narrative tense is used to talk about a past event that happed before another past event:

• Past simple

• Past continuous

• Past perfect

Most of our memory is taken up by information connected to our personal stories.

• True

• False

This type of memory is about repeating a movement over and over again:

• Semantic memory

• Muscle memory

• Procedural memory

This is when you may have a vague awareness of a past connection with a person but you can’t identify them without context.

• Dejà vu

• Paramnesia

• Neither

This means that you have suddenly realized something:

• to backfire

• one man’s meat is another’s man poison

• it dawned on me

This means to do something harmful to someone else in order to gain an advantage for yourself:

• to throw someone under the bus

• the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

• every cloud has a silver lightning