--- title: Openings that hook the reader — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 40 «Openings that hook the reader» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Openings that hook the reader # Openings that hook the reader The 15 questions of lesson 40 «Openings that hook the reader» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 88 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t1/) — Your mate goes "first line don't matter, the teacher reads it all anyway, innit." What is the truth? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t2/) — ★★★ Which opening makes the reader ask the most questions? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t3/) — In a cartoon, a book's first page is just "Blah blah blah, the end." What would a writing teacher say? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t4/) — What would happen if every story in your class began "Once upon a time"? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t5/) — A girl in Boston says "That first line is wicked good." ("Wicked" means very in New England.) Which line might she mean? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t6/) — ★★★ Ava writes "Splash! Freezing water filled my wellies." Her ending is "I got home and had a bath." Which ending matches the opening better? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t7/) — Your brother, dead sarcastic: "Wow, 'It was a dark and stormy night'. So original." What is he hinting? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t8/) — A lad in Cork says "Yer man's story starts with a dragon and never has one again." ("Yer man" means that fella.) What is wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t9/) — ★★★ Which non-fiction opening is a surprising fact? — right ✓ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t10/) — A Gen Z cousin says "Starting with the plot twist is lowkey iconic." ("Lowkey" means a bit secretly, "iconic" means amazing.) What technique is that? — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/t11/) — Which opening uses speech as a hook? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/e1/) — Identify the principal function of the opening sentence of a narrative. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/e2/) — Which of the following most accurately characterises the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" in contemporary teaching? — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/e3/) — Select the opening consistent with the technique of commencing in the middle of the action. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/e4/) — Ascertain the principal objection to an ending in which events are revealed to have been a dream. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [39. Planning before writing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/39-planning-before-writing/) - next →: [41. Describing: senses, showing and precise words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/)