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Collectables Craze

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17 questions
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  • Q1
    Who is the author of the article?
    Kevin Stent
    Kath Dewar
    Jessy Edwards
    Cameron Sigmund
    60s
  • Q2
    What language feature is used in "collectables craze"?
    connotations
    alliteration
    annotation
    repetition
    60s
  • Q3
    "Heavier shopping baskets, lighter wallets and more frenetic children" is an example of
    triple construction
    personification
    superlatives
    adjectives
    60s
  • Q4
    The word "addictive" in this phrase: "addictive little marketing campaigns" is
    spelling error
    an exaggeration
    personification
    a negative connotation
    60s
  • Q5
    Starting the article with the story of one family's experience uses
    amnesia
    antithesis
    assonance
    anecdote
    60s
  • Q6
    The best meaning of 'ethics' is
    morals
    behaviour
    conscience
    misbehaviour
    60s
  • Q7
    What is making some people unhappy about the collectables campaign?
    It is expensive
    It is anti-competitive
    Children are exposed to brands too early
    Children are fighting over toys
    60s
  • Q8
    Collecting stuff has always been popular with children
    false
    true
    60s
  • Q9
    The current craze for collectables is compared to
    Happy Meals
    All Blacks cards
    a tsunami
    Weetbix
    60s
  • Q10
    "Shrinking consumers" is a type of
    disease
    sub-heading
    pun
    useful phrase
    60s
  • Q11
    'Pester-power marketing' means
    kids pressure parents to buy stuff
    advertising during cartoons
    grinding down resistance
    brothers and sisters fight over toys
    60s
  • Q12
    Dewar believes that children should know what brand they are playing with
    false
    true
    60s
  • Q13
    The mini-shop toys teach children what a supermarket trolley should look like.
    This is a bad thing
    This is a good thing
    60s
  • Q14
    It is a bad thing to suggest there is a certain way a trolley should look because it suggests that
    some people don't buy razors and magazines
    you have to spend a lot more
    cheap items are okay
    there are right and wrong brands and items
    60s
  • Q15
    Why is marketing to children frowned upon?
    They want everything they see
    They might buy the wrong brand
    They can't tell they are being manipulated
    They don't have income
    60s

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