Dickensian Language Quiz

#1. Examples of settings

Select all that apply:

City

Building

Room

#2. What are caricatures?

A type of animal

Characters that the audience is meant to dislike

The leading character

A exaggerated character

A unnamed character

#3. Dickens was once a newspaper reporter. What what powerful ... did he use in his descriptions particually

Similes

Adverbs

Metaphors

Adjectives

#4. What is the name for a name like 'Cratchit' (sounds like "scratch it" - scratching out a meagre life)

A double meaning name

A symbolic name

A deeper meaning name

A hidden meaning name

#5. The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals (which technique?)

Pathetic fallacy

Imagery

Enjambment

Blank Verse

Personification

#6. Long sentences, conversational style, reads like Dickens is talking to us (which technique?)

Busy paragraphs

Convoluted syntax

Propaganda

Riddle

Passive Voice

Figure of Speech

#7. Why are caricatures used?

Select all that apply:

To irritate the audience

To make a character seem arrogant

To entertain the audience

To make a focal character

To mock the character