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Foreshadowing, flashback, cliffhanger and red herring

8th grade (Year 9 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: RL.8.3, RL.8.5, RL.8.6 · England: KS3 Reading (narrative techniques), GCSE English Language Paper 1 Q3

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Question 1
Which narrative technique is used here? "Don't worry," said Grandad, tapping the old lock. "Nobody ever opens that door."
- A. cliffhanger
- B. red herring
- C. foreshadowing
- D. flashback
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Question 2
Which narrative technique matches this description? A scene that jumps back to events that happened before the main story.
- A. red herring
- B. foreshadowing
- C. flashback
- D. cliffhanger
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Question 3
Which narrative technique is used here? The detective focuses on a torn red glove at the scene, which later turns out to belong to the victim.
- A. cliffhanger
- B. red herring
- C. flashback
- D. foreshadowing
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Question 4
Which narrative technique matches this description? A hint or clue early in a story about something that will happen later.
- A. red herring
- B. cliffhanger
- C. flashback
- D. foreshadowing
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Question 5
Which narrative technique is used here? She turned the key, the door swung open — and someone was already inside. END OF CHAPTER 4.
- A. foreshadowing
- B. cliffhanger
- C. flashback
- D. red herring
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Question 6
Which narrative technique matches this description? A scene that jumps back to events that happened before the main story.
- A. red herring
- B. foreshadowing
- C. flashback
- D. cliffhanger
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Question 7
Which narrative technique is used here? The detective focuses on a torn red glove at the scene, which later turns out to belong to the victim.
- A. red herring
- B. flashback
- C. cliffhanger
- D. foreshadowing
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Question 8
Which narrative technique matches this description? A hint or clue early in a story about something that will happen later.
- A. red herring
- B. foreshadowing
- C. flashback
- D. cliffhanger
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Question 9
Which narrative technique is used here? The smell of the sea took her back twenty years, to a summer when she and her brother built a raft from driftwood.
- A. flashback
- B. foreshadowing
- C. cliffhanger
- D. red herring
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Question 10
Which narrative technique matches this description? A misleading clue that points readers towards the wrong answer.
- A. foreshadowing
- B. red herring
- C. cliffhanger
- D. flashback
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Question 11
Which narrative technique is used here? The phone lit up with a message from an unknown number: I know what you did. (Episode ends.)
- A. red herring
- B. cliffhanger
- C. foreshadowing
- D. flashback
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Question 12
Which narrative technique matches this description? An ending to a chapter or episode that leaves the reader in suspense.
- A. red herring
- B. cliffhanger
- C. foreshadowing
- D. flashback
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Question 13
Which narrative technique is used here? As they set off, Mia noticed the boat's rope was badly frayed, but she said nothing.
- A. flashback
- B. cliffhanger
- C. foreshadowing
- D. red herring
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Question 14
Which narrative technique matches this description? A scene that jumps back to events that happened before the main story.
- A. flashback
- B. cliffhanger
- C. foreshadowing
- D. red herring
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Question 15
Which narrative technique is used here? Everyone suspects the gardener, who was seen near the safe with muddy boots, but he was only fixing a leaking pipe.
- A. flashback
- B. red herring
- C. cliffhanger
- D. foreshadowing
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Question 16
Which narrative technique matches this description? An ending to a chapter or episode that leaves the reader in suspense.
- A. flashback
- B. red herring
- C. foreshadowing
- D. cliffhanger

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