WorksheetsQuiz 7
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which word means 'fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing'?
eloquent
devious
industrious
impetuous
What word means 'able to trick people to achieve your goals'?
melodramatic
didactic
eloquent
devious
What word means 'to control or influence someone or a situation for your own benefit'?
browbeat
manipulate
reform
antagonise
What word means 'to verbally intimidate someone into doing something'?
manipulate
browbeat
symbolise
avenge
Which word means 'a cruel, harsh ruler'?
denigration
tyrant
discord
antithesis
Which word means 'the action of unfairly criticising someone or something'?
denigration
misanthropy
tyrant
ignominy
‘With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these ______’
fences
barriers
walls
people
‘Doth she not count her blest, _________ as she is, that we have wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bride?’
unworthy
baggage
lovely
precious
‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s ________ every twenty-fifth of December!’
money
nose
coins
‘I can’t afford to make ________ people merry.’
poor
rich
idle
stupid
‘with two more children how can you possibly avoid some of them being put into ________?’
school
prison
jobs
care
‘at least if the child was with me you’d be able to see him every day, as you came to __________’
work
school
visit
worship
‘I gave __________; / Then all smiles stopped together.’
orders
requests
commands
money
‘she liked whate’er she looked on, and her looks went ___________.’
nowhere
anywhere
somewhere
everywhere
What method is a word that adds description to a noun?
pronoun
adverb
adjective
proper noun
What method is a question asked for effect, rather than an answer?
rhetorical question
burning question
interrogative
metaphor
What method is when a writer creates a noticeable difference or opposition between two things?
adjective
repetition
contrast
simile
What method is when a word/phrase is used more than once for deliberate effect?
metaphor
repetition
lexical choice
rhetorical question
Which character manipulates Mrs Johnstone into giving up a child?
Mr Lyons
Mrs Lyons
Sammy
The narrator
Which of these characters could best be described as devious?
Mrs Lyons
Bob Cratchit
The war photographer
Benvolio
Which character browbeats their child?
Mrs Johnstone
Lord Capulet
Lady Montague
The mother in 'Poppies'
Which of these would best be described as a tyrant?
Ozymandias
Mr Lyons
Tybalt
Wilfred Owen
Which of these characters is most eloquent?
The Duke in 'My Last Duchess'
Sammy Johnstone
Mickey Johnstone
The pilot/father in 'Kamikaze'
Scrooge suggests the poor are lazy. Lord Capulet calls his daughter 'baggage'. Both of these are examples of what?
Eloquence
Denigration
Conjecture
Tyranny
In which poem are domestic images mixed with images of war?
Tissue
Checking Out Me History
Poppies
Ozymandias
'The merciless iced east winds' suggests that nature is...
implacable
ephemeral
domestic
eloquent
Juliet attempts to _________ Friar Laurence into finding a solution by threatening to commit suicide.
coerce
abhor
acquiesce
avenge
Which of these characters shows prejudice against the poor?
Bob Cratchit
The portly gentlemen
Fred
Scrooge
Which of these characters avenges their friend's death?
Romeo
Juliet
Tybalt
The Nurse
Which of these texts does NOT suggest that there should be some reform in society, particularly in terms of the class system?
'London' by William Blake
'Blood Brothers' by Willy Russell
'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens
'Poppies' by Jane Weir
Which of these characters is usually presented as hostile?
The Nurse
Friar Laurence
Tybalt
Juliet
‘My child is yet a ________ in the world’
stranger
youth
alien
girl
Who is the speaker in 'My Last Duchess'?
The Duke
The Dutch
The Duchess
Robert Browning
‘on his brow I see that written which is _________, unless the writing be erased’
Doom
Ignorance
Want
Death
Who claims that love has given them wings that they used to get over a wall?
Juliet
Mercutio
Lord Capulet
Romeo
What institutions does Scrooge believe the poor should go to?
prisons and workhouses
schools and nurseries
death camps and mental asylums
the job centre
Who acquiesces to giving their employee the day off work on Christmas Day?
Scrooge
Fred
Mr Lyons
Lord Montague
Who thinks that their child should consider themselves lucky?
Lord Montague
Lord Capulet
Belle
The mother in 'Poppies'
Who works in a 'dismal little cell'?
Benvolio
Edward Lyons
The speaker in 'The Prelude'
Bob Cratchit
Whose power (compared to nature) is presented as ephemeral?
Ozymandias'
The Duke's
Mrs Lyons'
John Agard's
