DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL

NACHARAM
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION – IN174
Academic Year (2023-2024)
Subject: English
Name of the Student: __________________

Grade & Section: 8 A/ B Date of Test: ________

Concept: Grammar, Vocabulary, Figurative language Concept Check: 1

Marks:10

Sl. Question Answers

No.
1. One morning I watched the sun rise after a winter snowstorm.
What kind of sentence is this? Declarative

a. Exclamatory b. Interrogative c. Declarative

2. Complete the sentence so that it uses an idiom.
As India put up a less score, winning the World cup for
Australia was a ___________________ piece of cake

a. piece of cake b. ghost in the darkness c. Herculean

task
3. “Much remained mysterious, but Grand Canyon was slowly
coming into focus” mystery

Give the noun form of the ‘mysterious’________________

4. _____________________ is a literary technique in which pathetic fallacy

nature is used to reflect a character’s emotions or situations.
a. Pathetic fallacy b. Personification c. Irony
5. Identify the kind of imagery used in these lines
The rush of traffic, even in the dark hours a constant crush of
Aural
sound, tyres rolling and engines rumbling, loose drains clack-
clacking like castanets
a. Visual b. Aural c .Tactile

6. ___________________ means a form of writing from an

observer’s point of view using pronouns such as ‘he’ ‘she’
Third person writing c
and ‘they’ autobiography

a. First person writing b. Third person writing c

Autobiography

7. One _____________adhere to traffic rules.

must
Use a suitable modal to complete this sentence showing
compulsion
A sonnet is a poem of ___________lines.
14
8. a. 14 b. 16. c.18

9. Which of the terms given below means” a metaphor that

uses a space i.e., a physical space, location or area as a
comparison Spatial metaphor

a. Visual metaphor b. Spatial metaphor c. Extended

metaphor
10. Punctuate the given sentence correctly
We dont need words she said looking down the chasm
beneath them
“We don’t need words,” she said, looking down at the chasm beneath
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them.

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