The House on the Salt Marsh: Techniques & Vocab

Question 1 of 8

What does ‘desolate’ mean in ‘the flat, desolate marsh’?

A) empty, bare and lonely

B) busy and crowded

C) warm and pleasant

D) rich and green

Question 2 of 8

What is a ‘causeway’?

A) a tall stone tower

B) a raised road or path across water

C) a small rowing boat

D) a kind of storm

Question 3 of 8

‘the water gleamed like beaten tin’ is an example of:

A) personification

B) a simile

C) a question

D) onomatopoeia

Question 4 of 8

The windows ‘seemed to watch me’. This technique is:

A) a simile

B) alliteration

C) personification

D) a fact

Question 5 of 8

The repeated soft ‘s’ in ‘a soft, seething, hissing sound’ is used to:

A) make the scene feel jolly

B) describe the colour of the reeds

C) show there are snakes nearby

D) build a tense, sinister atmosphere

Question 6 of 8

What does ‘gaunt’ suggest about the house?

A) it looks bare, grim and severe

B) it looks cosy and inviting

C) it is brightly coloured

D) it is tiny

Question 7 of 8

Which group of words best builds the passage’s sense of foreboding?

A) steady, little, near, slowly

B) pony, cart, road, window

C) desolate, vanish, cold, forbidding

D) wide, pale, straight, smooth

Question 8 of 8

The passage is written in the first person. Which word shows this?

A) ‘house’

B) ‘I’

C) ‘the’

D) ‘grey’

The House on the Salt Marsh: Techniques & Vocab

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