Lesson C02.6.1
C02.6.1 Close reading of unseen prose extracts Quiz: OCR English Literature, Unit 2
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The 20 questions
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What type of text must candidates analyse in Section A of Component 02?
- Unseen prose extract
- Unseen poetry extract
- Comparative essay topic
- Published drama script
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What term describes a narrator who is also a character inside the story?
- Homodiegetic narrator
- Unreliable narrator
- Omniscient narrator
- Heterodiegetic narrator
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What term refers to a narrator who exists outside the story events?
- Internal focaliser
- Secondary narrator
- Homodiegetic narrator
- Heterodiegetic narrator
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Which narrative technique blends third-person narration directly with a character's internal thoughts?
- Stream of consciousness
- Dramatic monologue
- Direct interior monologue
- Free indirect discourse
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A narrator describes events using pronouns like "I" and "we". Which person is this?
- First person
- Third person omniscient
- Third person limited
- Second person
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What narrative term describes the specific perspective or angle through which events are perceived?
- Spatialization
- Juxtaposition
- Focalisation
- Denotation
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A prose extract contains words like "decay", "gloomy", and "crypt". Which genre is featured?
- Gothic
- Dystopian
- Science fiction
- Pastoral
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What term refers to the structural arrangement of words within a sentence?
- Syntax
- Diction
- Prosody
- Semantics
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A passage uses consecutive short, abrupt sentences. What narrative effect is primarily created?
- Romantic sentiment
- Elaborate description
- Rapid tension
- Leisurely reflection
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What literary term describes a recurring image, symbol, or idea throughout a text?
- Analogy
- Conceit
- Motif
- Archetype
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A character describes a violent thunderstorm by calling it "lovely weather". What device is used?
- Structural irony
- Cosmic irony
- Dramatic irony
- Verbal irony
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Which term refers to the authorial or narrative attitude conveyed towards the subject matter?
- Atmosphere
- Mood
- Register
- Tone
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Which term describes the overarching mood or emotional feeling generated by a scene?
- Tenor
- Frame
- Tone
- Atmosphere
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An unseen extract features terms like "surveillance", "authoritarian", and "rationing". What genre is this?
- Post-colonial literature
- Dystopian fiction
- Gothic literature
- American literature
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What term describes a story where an outer narrative encloses an inner story?
- Linear chronology
- Frame narrative
- In media res
- Epistolary structure
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Which term describes a narrator whose account of events cannot be fully trusted?
- Unreliable narrator
- Intrusive narrator
- Retrospective narrator
- Objective narrator
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A text moves swiftly back and forth between past memories and present events. Which technique is used?
- Analepsis
- Prolepsis
- Ellipsis
- Anaphora
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What narrative term describes a jump forward in time to depict future events?
- Paralipsis
- Analepsis
- Metalepsis
- Prolepsis
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What term refers specifically to the author's choice and selection of individual words?
- Diction
- Syntax
- Rhythm
- Tone
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What term describes a third-person narrator with complete knowledge of all characters' thoughts?
- Omniscient
- Homodiegetic
- Objective
- Limited focalised
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