Meeting and creating unknown characters | Starter Quiz | Oak National Academy

What is a character?

• a real person

• a person in a novel

• a friend

Answer explanation

A character is a person in a novel, play, or film that a writer often uses to represent wider themes or ideas.

Someone unknown is {{ }}.

• someone you're friendly with

• someone you are unfamiliar with

• someone you dislike and don't want to be around

Answer explanation

Meeting someone unknown can be either a scary or exciting prospect because there is a blank slate waiting.

The organ associated with love is {{ }}.

• the brain

• the heart

• the lungs

• the eyes

Answer explanation

Though it doesn't regulate emotions, people often associate the heart with love because it beats faster when we feel certain emotions.

To make something new or imaginative is to {{ }}.

• copy

• create

• dismantle

• imitate

Answer explanation

To cause something to exist, or to make something new or imaginative is to create something.

Onomatopoeia is {{ }}.

• giving human emotions to non-human things or objects

• a word that resembles the sound it describes

• a comparison using like or as

• a word that has the same spelling but a different meaning

Answer explanation

Using onomatopoeia allows the reader to feel as if they are in the scene because they can hear the sound in their head.

We generally associate light and light imagery with {{ }}.

• positivity

• negativity

• neutrality

Answer explanation

Because things are revealed in the light and we think of light bringing warmth and hope then we associate light with happiness.