World Scholar's Cup Literature and Media — practice questions
44 free MCQs with worked solutions. Tap any question for the answer + explanation, or practice them all in the app.
Practice World Scholar's Cup Literature and Media in the app →Checking an article, you first look for who wrote it and who published it. You are judging its:A short note at the start of an article giving the writer's background helps you check their:A piece on medical side effects is written by a doctor rather than a political lobbyist. The doctor is expecteAn organisation promoting one way of thinking may shape the content and language of its article. That influencBias is described as showing in which events and facts are included or:Left unexamined, a strong stance in a text is described as something that can:In general, when weighing sources, you are advised to look for articles written with:A checklist for testing a source's reliability spells out the memorable name:In that checklist, the C stands for:In that same checklist, the two A letters stand for accuracy and:The final letter of that checklist asks about the source's:A researcher reads a soldier's own wartime diary. That document is a:A student wants a firsthand record of a strike for her essay. She should reach for:Newspaper coverage written at the time an event happened counts as a:A reviewer supports her claims about a novel by citing works written about that novel. Those are:A student builds a page combining text, images and audio. That kind of work is called:Every composition, multimodal or not, is said to begin with the:In that situation, the composer uses communication to influence the perspective of the:Choices in a multimodal piece are made based on context, audience, purpose, culture and:All multimodal compositions are described as being created for a specific time, place and:A short interesting story told to make a point or amuse readers is an:The point of highest interest and emotional response in a narrative is the:A speaker builds a believable, authoritative voice so the hall will trust her. That appeal is:An advertisement leans on feelings its viewers already share. That appeal is:A writer stacks up facts, reasons and examples that lead to a sensible conclusion. That appeal is:A campaigner holds her speech back until exactly the right moment. That idea is:Before analysing a speech, a student maps the conditions of communication around it. Those conditions are the:One declarative sentence names the topic, the angle taken and what the rest of the paper will support. That isA speaker returns to one phrase again and again to hammer it home. That device is:Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country repeats one pattern of words. TA speaker asks a question nobody is meant to answer, purely for effect. That device is a:A writer says the virus packed its bags and crossed the ocean. Giving a nonhuman thing human traits is:After a disaster a writer calls it a spot of bother, deliberately playing it down. That device is:Only you can prevent forest fires overstates one person's power on purpose. That device is:The treasure shone like a pirate's gold tooth sets two things side by side using like. That is a:The pizza was a disk of saucy sunlight says one thing simply is another. That is a:In a debate one side goes after the speaker instead of the argument. That fallacy is:An advertisement says everyone is buying these sneakers, so hurry before you are left out. That fallacy is theA speaker warns that one small step will end in disaster. That fallacy is the:Rain fell the evening after a village dance, so someone says the dance brought it. That fallacy is the:A shop advertises cheap phones, then changes the terms once you have agreed to come in. That fallacy is:A writer reaches for the nation's founding principle of equality to stir the reader. That reference is an:A writer supports a claim with statistics and figures. That kind of evidence is:Taking a text apart to see how its persuasion works is a rhetorical: