Returning from the unknown | Starter Quiz | Oak National Academy

To return to somewhere means {{ }}.

• to visit somewhere new

• to tell someone about that place

• to go back to that place

Answer explanation

Logically, if we return to somewhere then we must have had a positive emotion associated with it to make us want to go back.

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', Dorothy wishes to find Oz to ask him to return her to Kansas. This implies {{ }}.

• she wants to stay in Oz

• she's eager to return to Kansas

• she wants her companions to come to Kansas with her

Answer explanation

Though Dorothy has found friends in Oz, she still wishes to return home to her Aunt Em.

To learn means to {{ }}.

• to give someone knowledge

• to get new knowledge

• to remember previous knowledge

Answer explanation

Every time we read we have the chance to learn something because we are being exposed to different ideas and thoughts.

A semantic field is {{ }}.

• a word that is spelled the same but has a different meaning

• a group of words with a similar meaning

• when the first line of a text mirrors the last line

Answer explanation

Writers can use semantic fields in order to emphasise an emotion and to build atmosphere.

To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have is to {{ }}.

• infer

• convey

• present

• indicate

Answer explanation

We can never be sure what a writer has intended to express so instead we make inferences based on their language and structural choices.

The moral of a story is {{ }}.

• the lesson the story wants to teach us

• the way we have used language in our story

• the way a reader responds to the story

Answer explanation

While stories are entertaining, often there is also a lesson behind them that the writer wants us to take away from the story.