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Yr 9 Week 1 - Word Classes and Creative Writing

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is meant by flashback?

a)

Conclusion of the narrative

b)

Interruption in the narrative to show quick events from the past which may help explain what’s occurring in the present.

c)

Beginning of the narrative to show what will happen in the future

d)

Middle of the narrative

2.

What is meant by back story?

a)

The necessary information from the present which is needed to understand the setting

b)

The necessary information from the future which is needed to understand past events.

c)

The necessary information about the antagonist

d)

The necessary information from the past which is needed to understand the current events.

3.

What is meant by a linear narrative?

a)

Stories that start at the end and finish at the beginning

b)

Stories that happen from one point in time to the next.

c)

Narratives that have more than one narrator

d)

Narratives that jump back and forward in time

4.

What is meant by the setting?

a)

Where and when the narrative takes place.

b)

Where and when the theme is introduced

c)

Where and when the narrative ends .

d)

When the narrative changes how it is narrated

5.

What is meant by Flash-forward?

a)

A type of symbol that relates to the future

b)

Another name for a lead character

c)

Interruption in the narrative showing what is to come in the future that is used to create tension or excitement.

d)

Middle of the narrative showing what just happened

6.

What is dialogue?

a)

are the conversations which occurs between one character.

b)

are the conversations which occurs between two or more characters.

c)

are the conversations which occurs at the beginning of a story

d)

are the conversations which occurs in the middle of a story

7.

What is meant by conflict?

a)

Is the challenge main characters need to solve to achieve their goals

b)

Is the setting main characters live in

c)

Is the challenge main characters fail at

d)

Is the main character in a horror film

8.

What is a protagonist?

a)

The minor character in a play, film, novel

b)

The leading character in a film

c)

The leading character in a play, film or novel

d)

The leading character in a play, film or novel who always dies

9.

What is personification?

a)

A figure of speech which symbolises something

b)

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or natural force is portrayed or addressed as if a human being.

c)

A figure of speech in which a human is portrayed or addressed as if an animal

d)

An object

10.

What is foreshadowing?

a)

a hint of what just happened in the story.

b)

an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

c)

an advance hint of who will die

d)

an advance hint of the title of the story

11.

What is a simile?

a)

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things linked by the words using the words “like” and “as”.

b)

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things linked by the words using the words “us” and “them”.

c)

A figure of speech comparing two similar things linked by the words using the words “like” and “as”.

d)

A figure of speech comparing four unlike things linked by the words using the words “like” and “it”.

12.
Which one is NOT a noun?
a)
duvet
b)
ghastly
c)
compost
d)
rubbish
13.

In the sentence below, what word class is slowly?

The tiny spider slowly climbed up the pipe.

a)

verb

b)

adjective

c)

adverb

d)

noun

14.

In the sentence below, what word class is shoes?

Katie loved her new shiny shoes.

a)

adjective

b)

adverb

c)

noun

d)

verb

15.

In the sentence below, what word class is raining?

Even though it was raining, Milo went outside.

a)

verb

b)

adverb

c)

noun

d)

adjective

16.

In the sentence below, what word class is song?

Mr Walker - a talented musician - wrote a beautiful song.

a)

adjective

b)

noun

c)

verb

d)

preposition

17.

In the sentence below, what word class is bitter?

Mrs Juty spat out the coffee because it tasted bitter.

a)

verb

b)

adjective

c)

adverb

d)

noun

18.

In the sentence below, what word class is important?

The museum held many important artefacts.

a)

noun

b)

adverb

c)

adjective

d)

verb

19.

In the sentence below, what word class is the?

I ate the chocolate cookie for dessert.

a)

noun

b)

adjective

c)

determiner

d)

adverb

20.

In the sentence below, what word class is she?

She stopped and gazed up at his face.

a)

noun

b)

pronoun

c)

determiner

d)

adverb