Reading Prose Fiction for N(A)-Level Literature in English (SEAB 2022) quiz quiz

Explaining how the writer creates character, meaning and feeling through specific choices

A detailed retelling of the plot

Naming as many techniques as you can find

Writing everything you remember about the author

There is no difference

Showing is always done by the narrator and telling by other characters

Telling only happens in poetry

Telling states a trait directly; showing reveals it through actions, speech or description so the reader works it out

Say the narrator tells us the character is kind and stop there

Quote what the character does or says and explain what it reveals about them

List every adjective used about the character

Describe what you imagine the character looks like

Give a close, personal account from inside one character's mind, told as 'I'

Know the thoughts of every character at once

Stand completely outside the story

Describe events the narrator never witnessed

It does not; narrators are neutral

Because first-person narrators are always honest

Because the narrator controls what we know and whose viewpoint we share, which shapes who we side with

Because third-person narrators cannot describe feelings

Retell the events in order

Analyse how events are arranged and explain the effect of that shaping on the reader

List the chapter numbers

Summarise the ending only

A summary placed at the start of a story

The climax of the plot

A description of the setting

A hint or clue early in a text that prepares the reader for something that happens later

It always confuses the reader and should be avoided

It can reveal a character's past, explain present behaviour, or withhold and then deliver key information for impact

It only appears in first-person stories

It speeds the plot up by skipping ahead

It can mirror or shape a character's feelings and build atmosphere and meaning

It cannot; setting is only background

It only matters in historical fiction

It replaces the need for characters

The number of characters present

The length of the chapter

The narrator's name

The mood or feeling a passage creates, built from setting, detail and word choice

How clearly an actor speaks

A writer's specific word choices and the connotations those words carry

The order of chapters in a novel

The dialogue of one character only

It always means the writer ran out of ideas

It can only be used in dialogue

It can create shock, finality or impact by standing out against longer sentences

It has no effect on the reader

Explain the effect, for example that the long, flowing sentence draws out the moment and mirrors the character's wandering thoughts

Add the writer's nationality

Remove the comment entirely

Replace it with a plot summary

It tells the marker how you feel about the subject

It replaces the need for quotation

It signposts the moment of effect, letting you find the word or detail that caused it and then analyse that choice

It is irrelevant to a literature answer