CIPP fiction questions, Boogii

1.What is flitting like bats an example of?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• rhyme

• simile

2.Look at these two phrases

‘... their gymslips – a different colour for each house – and the school

badge ...’

‘... which she often chewed absent-mindedly (another thing she was told

off about) ...’

Why have dashes and brackets been used in these phrases?

• to add extra information/to give more detail

• to give opposite idea/to tell more detail

• to tell about some parts are missing/to give more about

• to
  

  emphasis meanong of the part/to give more detail

3.Name the genre of fiction text?

Give more than one answer.

• Fantacy

• Horror

• Humour

• Newpaper/Articles

• Traditional Tale

4.Give one example of a countable noun and one example of an uncountable

noun from the first sentence.

I rubbed my eyes and breathed in deeply, filling my lungs with the cool night air.

• breath

• eyes/lung

• air

• cool

5. 5.Give one example of an adjective that is being used as a noun in the

   paragraph.

6. The forest was dark and still. This was the dark before the dawn. The dark

   when the spirits walked.

• dark

• forest

• still

• when

6.Give a three-word phrase from the paragraph that is an example of rhyme.

Moonlight reflected from

the wide pools below the waterfall, the ripples spreading in perfect circles of

bright, white light.

• below, light, white

• Moonlight, pools, below

• bright, white light

• perfect, reflected, waterfall

7.What does the metaphor the knife-edge tell us about the wind?

He could smell the storm coming, the scent of

snow on the knife-edge of the wind. His last hunt before true winter.

• The wind feels sharp like a knife.

• knife is sharp to cut

• The edge of khife is strong.

• snow is coming so you can cut it with sharp knife.

8.Give one example of reported speech from this paragraph.

My father loved it, he said, because the air was clear and clean.

No brick dust – he worked down at the brickworks. He was a great do-it-yourself

fanatic.

• my father loved it.

• My father loved it, he said

• He worked down

• He was great, to do-it-yourself.

9.Explain why the writer uses some long and some short sentences here.

Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp,

Billy caught sight of a printed notice. It said BED AND BREAKFAST.

He stopped walking.

He moved a bit closer.

• short clauses

• The writer uses short sentences to create drama/suspense / catch the

  reader’s attention.

• The writer uses long sentences to give a detailed description of the window.

• Repetition of –ing verb form

10.‘“You’re horrible and cruel! All of you!” He threw the words high and shrill at all

those adults standing there on the beach.’

Why does the writer use the word ‘threw’ in these lines?

• to emphasise that the boy is small and young

• to emphasise that the boy is angry and upset.

• to show that the boy is breathless from running

• to show that the boy is speaking from a distance