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WorksheetsTechnical terms for paper 1 AQA English Lang GCSE
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
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Class
Date
1.
What type of words are "happy", "long", "green", "wobbly" and "dried"?
a)
Adjectives
b)
Verbs (doing or action words)
c)
Metaphors
d)
Adverbs
2.
What type of words are "run", "jumped", "slept", "trembled" and "shivered"?
a)
Descriptive words
b)
Adjectives - describing words.
c)
Verbs
d)
Personification
3.
What type of words are "slowly", "moodily" and "grumpily"?
a)
Similes
b)
Adjectives - describing words
c)
Adverbs. They describe how a verb action is done.
d)
Descriptive words
4.
What type of words are "table", "road", "woman" and "happy"?
a)
Nouns or naming words
b)
Verbs (doing or action words)
c)
Adjectives (describing words)
d)
Adverbs (words that describe how an action takes place
5.
Which of these is an example of a simile?
a)
The children ran like ripples through water
b)
The wizened woman wrote rhymes.
c)
The thunder roared.
6.
Which of these is an example of alliteration?
a)
All the world's a stage.
b)
My alarm clock yells at me every morning.
c)
Menacing sounds of mashing metal machines emanated from the mines.
d)
He is as brave as a lion.
7.
What is a metaphor?
(Example: What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.)
(Example: What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.)
a)
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
b)
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).
c)
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
d)
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
8.
What is personification?
(Example: "the ivy wove itself around the fence".
(Example: "the ivy wove itself around the fence".
a)
A descriptive word
b)
A figure of speech
c)
Comparing something to something else.
d)
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
9.
Why would a writer use a triple?
a)
Describing something three times is inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of descriptive phrases.
b)
It gets more marks.
c)
To engage the reader.
d)
My teacher said I had to.
10.
What is a discourse marker?
a)
A comma with a full stop over the top of it. Like this ;
b)
A discourse marker is a word or phrase that plays a role in managing the flow and structure of a piece of writing.
c)
A paragraph's opening sentence.
d)
A sort of bookmark.
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