Revision Sheet for Reading of Fiction
Questions
You will be expected to know the answer to the following questions for your next assessment.
1. What does tone mean when referring to a piece of writing?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
2. What is a metaphor?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
3. What is personification?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
4. If a question asks you to use quotes, what does this mean?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
5. If a question asks you to explain how a writer creates an effect, what kind of techniques should you
be looking for?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
6. If a question asks you to explain what impressions you get of something, what does this mean?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
7. If a question asks you to explain what a writer suggests in their writing, what do you need to do?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
8. What does it mean to track through an extract?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
9. What could you do to help you track through an extract?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
10. If a question asks you to explain what you think and feel about what has been written, what do you
need to do?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
11. What does it mean to evaluate something?
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
12. Now, next to each command word below, draw an image that helps you remember what they mean.
The first one has been done for you.
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Revision Sheet
1. What does tone mean when referring to a piece of writing?
a. Tone is feeling, atmosphere or attitudes shown by a writer. Tone may be formal,
informal, playful, serious, intimate, ironic, condescending, solemn, or many
other possible attitudes.
2. What is a metaphor?
a. A comparison where something is said to be something it isn’t (without using ‘as’
or ‘like’).
3. What is personification?
a. Where a non-human thing is described as if it was human.
4. If a question asks you to use quotes, what does this mean?
a. Include exact words from the text in your answer and put them in quotation
marks
5. If a question asks you to explain how a writer creates an effect, what kind of techniques should you
be looking for?
a. Find devices like metaphors or word choices like verbs and explain what effects
they create on the reader and why/how. You should look at connotations (what
the words make you think about) and try to find implicit (hidden) meanings.
6. If a question asks you to explain what impressions you get of something, what does this mean?
a. Again pick out quotes and explain how they affect your understanding of a
character or setting. You should explaining how the language affects you and
what it makes you think.
7. If a question asks you to explain what a writer suggests in their writing, what do you need to do?
a. You should be looking for hidden meanings. This is also sometimes called
implicit meanings. Don’t state the obvious.
8. What does it mean to track through an extract?
a. Read the extract and pick out quotes in chronological order, starting from the
beginning.
9. What could you do to help you track through an extract?
a. Use a highlighter and try to find relevant quotes from the beginning, middle
and end of the text. There’s almost always something important on the last line.
10. If a question asks you to explain what you think and feel about what has been written, what do you
need to do?
a. Again pick out quotes and explain how they affect your understanding of a
character or setting. You should explaining how the language affects you and
what it makes you think.
11. What does it mean to evaluate something?
a. This means weigh up the evidence and try to give a balanced overview that
explores both sides of an argument.