What Do You Remember of English?

How much do you remember from your high school days, sitting and listening to your teacher talk about similes, metaphors, famous works and expanding your vocabulary? This quiz is going to test you on exactly that.
 
 
Is this sentence in active or passive voice? "The event was held by a talkshow host."
Active
Passive
 
 
Complete this sentence: "I got some food for ______ wants some."
Whoever
Whomever
 
 
Which of the following best illustrates an 'anaphora'?
It ended with bigger smiles. It ended with grins.
Their stomachs were nearly as empty as their bags at the end of the trip.
They ended the trip with emptier stomachs and hearts.
The voyage was a breath of fresh air.
 
 
A comparison between two objects without using "like" or "as" is a....
Metaphor
Similie
Personification
Alliteration
 
 
Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?
John Steinbeck
J.D. Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ray Bradbury
 
 
Which of the following is a character from Shakespeare's play 'Much A-Do About Nothing'?
Beatrice
Horatio
Murcatio
Ophelia
 
 
How would you describe a narrator who knows everyone's thoughts but isn't a part of the story?
Third person omniscient
First person
Unreliable narrator
Second person
 
 
"Polly Pocket picked a purple plant" is an example of...
Alliteration
Contrast
Simile
Metaphor
 
 
"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." - What literary device does this quote by Tennyson exemplify?
Fallacy
Parallelism
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
 
 
The story of George Orwell's Animal Farm is an allegory for what historical period?
The Second World War
The Rise of Soviet Russia
The Great Depression
The Middle Ages
 
 
When something is ductile, it means it is...
easily malleable
used to dig ducts
similar in shape to tears
sticky on both sides
 
 
The contrast between what happens and what was expected is called...
Situational irony
Dramatic irony
Verbal irony
Sinister irony
 
 
"Buzz" and "BAM!" are examples of...
Onomatopoeia
Allegories
Allusions
Alliteration
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