Analysing Structural Choices in Whole Texts · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

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English · Reading Comprehension · ages 14-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. How many lines does a sonnet have?

    • Five
    • Twenty
    • Fourteen

  2. What does analysing structure mean?

    • Retelling the plot event by event
    • Explaining what the arrangement of a text does
    • Counting the words on each page

  3. Where a moment sits in a text can matter as much as what it contains.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. An ending repeats the opening image with one change. What should you explain?

    • How many pages the text has
    • What the return to the opening changes
    • Who printed the book

  5. An extract opens on one frightened child, then pulls back to the whole troubled city. How did the focus move?

    • From narrow to wide
    • From wide to narrow
    • It never moved at all

  6. A character speaks a long speech to herself, with no other character addressed. What is it?

    • A quatrain
    • A prologue
    • A soliloquy

  7. A student writes three pages on what happens and titles it structure analysis. What is the flaw?

    • It uses too few quotations
    • It covers content but never the order of decisions
    • It mentions the opening too early

  8. A twist is saved for the final line. Ann says placement gives it force. Ben says only content matters. Who is right?

    • Ann, because position carries meaning alone
    • Ben, because placement never matters
    • Both, because twists always work
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  1. Fourteen · Fourteen set lines make the sonnet's tight shape.
  2. Explaining what the arrangement of a text does · Structure is about order and its force, not retelling.
  3. True · Position carries meaning apart from content.
  4. What the return to the opening changes · A closing echo does work, and you must say what changed.
  5. From narrow to wide · One child to a whole city widens the lens.
  6. A soliloquy · Speech to the self means soliloquy. Speech to others means monologue.
  7. It covers content but never the order of decisions · Retelling is not structure. Decisions about order are.
  8. Ann, because position carries meaning alone · A last-line reveal hits harder than the same twist mid-page.
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