Lesson 3b.2.1

3b.2.1 AO2: analyse how meanings are shaped Quiz: OCR English Literature, Unit 4

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The 20 questions

  1. Which assessment objective in OCR A Level English Literature focuses on analysing literary craft and structure?

    • AO4
    • AO3
    • AO2
    • AO1

  2. What term describes unrhymed poetry written in regular iambic pentameter?

    • Ballad metre
    • Free verse
    • Blank verse
    • Heroic couplet

  3. What poetic device involves a line of verse continuing into the next without pause?

    • End-stopping
    • Anaphora
    • Enjambment
    • Caesura

  4. What term describes a sudden shift in tone or thought within a sonnet?

    • Volta
    • Sestet
    • Caesura
    • Quatrain

  5. What narrative technique blends third-person narration with a character's inner thoughts?

    • First-person perspective
    • Stream of consciousness
    • Dramatic monologue
    • Free indirect discourse

  6. What dramatic device occurs when the audience knows key information that characters do not?

    • Cosmic irony
    • Verbal irony
    • Structural irony
    • Dramatic irony

  7. What term describes a speech where a character speaks their private thoughts aloud alone?

    • Aside
    • Dialogue
    • Monologue
    • Soliloquy

  8. What sound device is created by the repetition of harsh 's' and 'z' sounds?

    • Consonance
    • Assonance
    • Sibilance
    • Plosive alliteration

  9. What term refers to a group of words connected by a shared theme or subject?

    • Phonetic pattern
    • Lexical register
    • Syntactic parallel
    • Semantic field

  10. What structural technique places two contrasting characters, scenes, or ideas side by side?

    • Juxtaposition
    • Anaphora
    • Foreshadowing
    • Framing device

  11. What device uses a part of something to represent the whole object or concept?

    • Personification
    • Synecdoche
    • Litotes
    • Metonymy

  12. What rhythm consists of five feet, each containing an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?

    • Iambic pentameter
    • Anapestic trimeter
    • Trochaic tetrameter
    • Dactylic hexameter

  13. What syntactic feature involves repeating the same word or phrase at the start of consecutive clauses?

    • Anaphora
    • Polysyndeton
    • Epistrophe
    • Asyndeton

  14. What structural device deliberately hints at narrative events that will occur later in a text?

    • Prolepsis
    • Catharsis
    • Analepsis
    • Foreshadowing

  15. What term describes the emotional atmosphere created by a text for the reader or audience?

    • Tone
    • Mood
    • Voice
    • Register

  16. What poetic pause occurs mid-line, usually marked by punctuation such as a comma or full stop?

    • Enjambment
    • Caesura
    • End-stop
    • Elision

  17. What term describes the deliberate omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses?

    • Anaphora
    • Asyndeton
    • Hypotaxis
    • Polysyndeton

  18. What literary effect evokes feelings of pity, sympathy, or sorrow in the audience?

    • Logos
    • Pathos
    • Bathos
    • Ethos

  19. What narrative frame involves a story told within another surrounding narrative?

    • Dual narrative
    • Frame narrative
    • Epistolary narrative
    • Linear narrative

  20. What style of sentence structure uses multiple conjunctions in close succession to build cumulative effect?

    • Hypotaxis
    • Parataxis
    • Polysyndeton
    • Asyndeton

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