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Y7 Methods: A Christmas Carol

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A Christmas Carol is an example of an ...............

a)

Allegory

b)

Elegy

c)

Tragedy

d)

Dystopia

2.

Foreshadow

a)

using the same sound or letter in consecutive words

b)

hint at later events

c)

to go back in time in the narrative

d)

a release of emotions

3.

juxtaposition

a)

hinting at later events

b)

shifting perspective

c)

contrasting ideas

d)

using the weather to symbolise emotion

4.

Exposition

a)

exaggeration

b)

contrasting ideas

c)

story's set up

d)

conflict

5.

protagonist

a)

opposes the hero

b)

assists

c)

love interest

d)

main character

6.

flashback

a)

an event/scene set earlier than the main narrative

b)

the writer's hints about events to happen later in the narrative

c)

when the focus shifts to another topic in the narrative

d)

when the narrator changes

7.

Imagery

a)

figurative language

b)

literal language

c)

time shifts in the narrative

d)

descriptive language that creates pictures of the text for the reader

8.

Dialogue

a)

summarising

b)

exaggerate

c)

characters' speech

d)

lines of poetry

9.

Personification

a)

understating

b)

human traits given to non human things

c)

a similar sound or letter using in consecutive words

d)

slang or common language - non standard English

10.

Symbolism

a)

something that represents a deeper meaning

b)

to bring out pity or sadness in a reader

c)

hints about what is to happen later

d)

a story told within a story

11.

archetypal

a)

typical of something

b)

characterised

c)

exaggerating

d)

inventive and clever

12.

hyperbole

a)

contrast

b)

exaggeration

c)

understated

d)

biased

13.

"hard and sharp as flint"

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Oxymoron

14.

Fire is used as a _______ to represent the quantity of Christmas Spirit a character or scene might have.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Motif

d)

Foil

15.

Fred is Scrooge's foil. What is a foil?

a)

A character that is another's opposite

b)

A character who stops another from achieving their goal

c)

The villain

d)

The hero

16.

When Scrooge sees his own grave - what point in the story is this?

a)

Inciting incident

b)

Climax

c)

Denouement

d)

Rising action

17.

Marley's chains are a symbol of what?

a)

Sin

b)

Greed

c)

Selflessness

d)

Ignorance

18.

A character who changes from who they are in the beginning of the story is called ................

a)

Dynamic

b)

Static

19.

Scrooge is described in stave 1 with many references to cold weather to highlight that he is numb to the emotions of others and that he is mean spirited. What is this technique?

a)

Simile

b)

Juxtaposition

c)

Personification

d)

Semantic field

20.

When Scrooge says 'decrease the surplus population' - he really means let the poor die. What is this statement an example of?

a)

euphemism

b)

interrogative phrase

c)

Contrast

d)

Symbolism