WorksheetsImaginative Writing Retrieval Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Identify the language technique used in the following sentence.
The room was as cold and official as a courtroom.
Metaphor
Verbs
Personification
Simile
What is the most accurate definition of the language device 'personification'?
When the weather is described.
When you compare something to something else using 'like' or 'as'.
A word which describes the actions of something.
The attribution of human characteristics to something non-human.
Which sentence uses personification effectively?
The mountains were tall and gigantic.
The mountains shielded the lake and the little village.
The mountains were as tall as a skyscrapers.
The mountains were overbearing statues.
'Glittering shards of glass danced below capturing the reflections of patchy snow.'
How would you describe the mood in the sentence above?
Pleasant and calm.
Ominous and tense.
Exciting and heart racing.
Unusual and strange.
Select the list of verbs which create an unsettling mood.
Danced, smiled and disrupted.
Smacked, screamed and glared
Appeared, hurried and sauntered.
Ran, spoke and settled.
What are evocative verbs?
Verbs which are animal related.
Descriptions.
Verbs in the past tense.
Verbs which evoke a certain image, emotion or memory.
What must you establish at the start of a narrative?
The rising action
The climax
The exposition
The falling action
How is pathetic fallacy different from personification?
They are the opposites.
Pathetic fallacy is always about the weather but personification is not.
They are both the same.
Pathetic fallacy is the description of setting with human emotions rather than simply actions like personification.
What is a cyclical narrative ending?
When the narrative ends with the same setting, idea or even words as the beginning.
When the ending is left open to the readers' interpretation.
The narrative ends with a moral lesson.
The narrative ends with the image of a circle.
Complete the following sentence.
Describing a character's eyes is an effective way to suggest ideas about their...
setting.
emotions.
personality.
team.
