GCSE English Language Recap

A Review must be...

• At least 800 words

• Lively, engaging, and interesting

• Balanced

• Formal

An embodied description is one that...

• Describes the way someone's body looks

• Describes what is happening in a character's body

• Describes the weather with human qualities

'Lennie, a huge man that he was, dragged his arms behind him the way a bear drags his paws.' This is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Animalism

• Animal Imagery

West is Best! Why you should visit the Wonderful West Walian Coast. The italicized text here is an example of:

[There are two correct answers]

• A subheading

• A subtlety

• Alliteration

• Alteration

• A lie

Section A of both English Language Papers involves questions that test...

• Reading and comprehension

• Leaflet writing and articles

• Writing

• Reading and condensation

The R and T in the AFOREST acronym stand for...

• Repetition and Time

• Rhetorical Question and Tense

• Rhyme and Tense

• Repetition/Rhetorical Question and Triplets/Rule of Three

Synthesis is the process of...

• Summarizing more than one text

• Synthesis is the skill of bringing together information from different sources to create a new text.

• Comparing a second text to a third text.

• Making sure an essay looks at both sides equally

'Simon's snake slithered suspiciously,' is an example of...

• Sibilance

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Repetition

"Yours sincerely" is typically employed in English when...

• You don't know the person's name

• You do know the person's name

An essay should include which of the following:

• The three A's: Argument, acronym, and anecdote.

• The three A's: Argument, anecdotes and appreciation of both sides.

• An introduction, a thesis/argument, main body paragraphs, and a conclusion.