Eel Marsh House is described as "gaunt". This is an example of which of the following?
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Personification
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Onomatopoeia
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Alliteration
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Simile
Q.3.
"At first the pony and then the trap met the sandy path, the smart noise we had been making ceased, and we went on almost in silence save for a hissing, silky sort of sound. Here and there were clumps of reeds, bleached bone-pale, and now and again the faintest of winds caused them to rattle dryly." Which language choices contribute to a sense of loneliness and foreboding?
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Pony, sandy, ceased, silence, clumps
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Smart, noise, silky, bleached, faintest
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Hissing, bleached, bone-pale, rattle, dryly
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Silky, clumps, bleached, faintest, caused
Q.4.
How does Arthur feel in this isolated spot?
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Excited
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On edge
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Lonely
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All of the above
Q.5.
Which of the following does NOT contribute to the impression of isolation created by the passage?
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"My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it"
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"I had never imagined such a place"
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"Then, the hedgerows petered out, and we seemed to be driving towards the very edge of the world"
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"As we drew nearer, I saw that the water was lying only shallowly over the rippling sand on either side of us, and that the line was in fact a narrow track leading directly ahead, as if into the estuary itself. As we slipped onto it, I realized that this must be the Nine Lives Causeway — this and nothing more — and saw how, when the tide came in, it would quickly be quite submerged and untraceable"
Q.6.
Why does Arthur decide to return with enough supplies to stay overnight at the house?
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He does not think it sensible for Keckwick to travel out to the island twice a day
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He has developed the idea that Keckwick feels antagonistic towards him
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He thinks Keckwick will interfere with his legal work
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He believes Keckwick will harm him
Q.7.
Although the island is a lonely spot, it is not altogether silent. Which sounds contribute to the atmosphere?
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The sounds of the waves and the coming storm
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The sounds of the trap, the wind and the birds
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The creaking of the old house and the sound of waves
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The cries of the birds and the mysterious moaning from the graveyard
Q.8.
The island has a surprising effect on Arthur. Which of the following does NOT contribute to this effect?
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"The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race"
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"Then, as it was so bright that it hurt my eyes to go on staring at it, I looked up ahead and saw, as if rising out of the water itself, a tall, gaunt house of grey stone with a slate roof, that now gleamed steelily in the light"
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"I saw the land on which it stood was raised up a little, surrounding it on every side for perhaps three or four hundred yards, of plain, salt-bleached grass, and then gravel"
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"For a moment or two, I simply sat looking about me in amazement, hearing nothing save the faint keening of the winter wind that came across the marsh and the sudden rawk-rawk of a hidden bird"
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