TERM 1 EXAM FOR ENGLISH
Grade: Year 8
Format: General Information
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Purpose Audience Tone
How to answer typical questions in comprehension?
Journal writing
LITERALY DEVIDES
Rhythm
Rhyme - Cat-hat, rotten-forgotten, heard-bird
Alliteration - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Simile – a phrase that uses a comparison to describe (like/as) As tall as a giraffe
Onomatopoeia - a word that sounds like the noise it describes. Buzz, Bang, Shhh, Clap, Whizz
Metaphor - description of an object look as if it was literally true. My kid's room is a disaster area because he refuses to
clean it up.
Personification - non-living things are given human traits. Jan ate the hotdog despite the arguments it posed to her digestive
system.
Hyperbole - “I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse “I've seen this movie a hundred times,”
COMMON QUESTION:
- Why did author used “this” literally device?
o To add emphasis to phrases - HYPERBOLE
o To compare how big/ small/ tall/ short/ pretty the thing is - SIMILE
o Describe his mood and emotions – PERSONOFICATION & METAPHOR
o Makes the storytelling easier to imagine/ makes scene clearer & vivid. – ONOMATOPOEIA
- Why did author used short sentence/ phrase?
o to grab readers attention
o to provide extra emphasis (important point)
o to show sudden events
o summarize main ideas
- What language is used to describe this time of day? What is the effect?
o Author used literally devices such as metaphors to describe this time of the day.
o The effect of it was to make the description of the movements of the sun to look literally true.
- Write down quotation from the first paragraph which makes the beach sound like a sad and lonely place. Explain how
the writer’s use of language helps to create this effect.
o “The beach was deserted now”
o Author comperes beach to a big dessert and expresses his mood and emotions through it as it is the loneliest and
“darkest” place he has ever been to and where all the mood in the world has escaped from.
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Which technique is used in the following sentence?
"With the servants flinging out the flower-pots faster than I could water them, what more could I have done?"
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
d. Hyperbole
PAT
PURPOSE - to entertain, inform, persuade & express feelings
AUDIENCE – children, teenagers, young adults, adults
TONE – formal/respectful/ informal; encouraging/ motivating; curious/ enthusiastic/ humorous