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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
Newspaper headlines are usually quite short and they are not written in complete sentences.
Four or five words are often enough to grab the reader’s attention.
Which of the headlines below would be the best one for a report about a man who was rescued from a river by his pet dog?
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
Newspaper headlines often make use of word-play techniques such as rhyme or alliteration (words beginning with the same sound).
Which technique is used in the following headline?
Spiders scare schoolchildren!
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
Does this headline use rhyme or alliteration?
More cheese, please!
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
Headlines often use puns to attract readers. A pun is a type of word play using two words that sound alike, or a word that can mean more than one thing.
Look at the following headline:
Witch pupil will win the Halloween competition?
The correct spelling of the first word is ‘which‘, but this is a pun because many people dress up as witches for Halloween.
Which of the following headlines contains a pun?
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
This headline also contains a pun.
Which word has more than one meaning?
Local bunny rabbit has hare-raising experience!
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