QUIZ: Answering questions on language paper 1

When you comment on the type of language used, you can identify types of language such as aggressive, violent, religious, romantic, humorous, mysterious, tense, suspensful etc (this list could go on and on!). However, if you are struggling to identify the type of language, which of the below could you use instead? Choose all that apply.

• Powerful

• Good

• Negative

• Positive

Imagery is language which creates an image in the reader's mind. Which language techniques below are most likely to create vivid imagery? Choose all that apply.

• Personification

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

Connotations are the words, thoughts, feelings, or ideas we think of when we see particular words or phrases. Which of the words below are likely to create connotations of joy, happiness, and humour? Choose two

• Effort

• Surprise

• Boredom

• Mischief

Connotations are the words, thoughts, feelings, or ideas we think of when we see particular words or phrases. Which of the words below are likely to create connotations of fear and suspicion? Choose two.

• Deceive

• Walk

• Call

• Attack

Tone is the mood or atmosphere of the way something is said or written. What is the tone created by the following? Choose two

'How dare you even consider doing that to me?!'

• Cheerful

• Aggressive

• Furious

• Mild

For question 2 of language paper 1, which of the below must you include? Choose all that apply.

• Information about the time in which the extract was written.

• Comments on layers of language

• Quotation from the extract

• Information about the writer

For question 3 of language paper 1, which parts of the extract must you focus on? Choose two.

• The end

• The middle

• The beginning

• The blurb

For question 4 of language paper 1, what must you include? Choose all that apply.

• Appropriate quotations from the extract

• Analysis of layers of language

• A critical comment or judgement on the student's statement

• Contextual information

How could we create a cyclical structure in our creative writing? Choose all that apply.

• Beginning and ending with the same word or sentence.

• Beginning with a sunrise and ending with a sunset (or the other way around)

• Beginning and ending in two different places.

• Beginning and ending with the same event.

What structural features could we use in our creative writing? Choose all that apply

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Personification

• Repetition