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Structural Devices

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is written in first person narrator?

a)

I went to the beach.

b)

You are going to the beach.

c)

She went to the beach.

2.

Is this a simple, compound or complex sentence?


Although she had nowhere to go, Milly dragged herself onto the bus morosely.

a)

simple

b)

compound

c)

complex

3.

Which of the following indicates a change in paragraph?

a)

Time

b)

Punctuation

c)

Place

d)

Long pause

4.

The other two times I should change paragraph are...

4 lines
5.

What is foreshadowing?

a)

A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

b)

When events in the future are hinted at.

c)

When two different ideas are put together for effect.

d)

When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

6.

What is juxtaposition?

a)

A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

b)

When events in the future are hinted at.

c)

When two different ideas are put together for effect.

d)

When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

7.

What is a red herring?

a)

A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

b)

When events in the future are hinted at.

c)

When two different ideas are put together for effect.

d)

When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

8.

What is a flashback?

a)

A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

b)

When events in the future are hinted at.

c)

When two different ideas are put together for effect.

d)

When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

9.

What is meant by the term 'in medias res'?

(a)  

10.

What is the inciting incident in a story?

a)

Where you are introduced to the characters and setting

b)

Where a problem is introduced and something happens.

c)

The rising tension of a story

d)

The section where everything comes together.

e)

The ending