WorksheetsLanguage and Structure
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a noun?
a)
A describing word
b)
A naming word
c)
A doing word
2.
What is an adjective?
a)
A describing word
b)
A naming word
c)
A doing word
d)
Describes how a verb is done
3.
What is a verb?
a)
A naming word
b)
A doing word
c)
A describing word
d)
Describes how a verb is done
4.
What is a pronoun?
a)
A naming word
b)
A word which replaces a full noun
c)
A describing word
d)
A doing word
5.
What is foreshadowing?
a)
Hinting at something happening in the future of the text
b)
A play on words
c)
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
6.
What is a simile?
a)
A big exaggeration
b)
A naming word
c)
Saying something IS something else
d)
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
7.
What is personification?
a)
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
b)
Talking directly to the reader
c)
Giving an inanimate object a human quality
d)
Language which causes an emotional reaction from the reader
8.
What is an anecdote?
a)
A personal story that helps prove a point
b)
Speaking directly to the reader
c)
A repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
d)
A question that does not require an answer
9.
What is hyperbole?
a)
Saying something IS something else
b)
A big exaggeration
c)
Speaking directly to the reader
d)
A personal story that helps prove a point
10.
The pen danced across the author's page
a)
Alliteration
b)
Metaphor
c)
Simile
d)
Personification
11.
What is this an example of?
95% of pupils feel that there is too much homework.
95% of pupils feel that there is too much homework.
a)
Anecdote
b)
Statistics
c)
Emotive Language
d)
Repetition
12.
Which type of figurative language uses repetition of initial sounds. EXAMPLE: Spellbinding stories spin the imagination of listeners
a)
Personification
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Hyperbole
13.
I heard the thunder BOOM and the lightning CRACK is an example of _____________?
a)
Exaggeration
b)
Simile
c)
Alliteration
d)
Onomatopoeia
14.
Which of these have connotations of love?
a)
Window
b)
Heart
c)
Dove
d)
Wreath
15.
"The only choice" is an example of...
a)
Colloquial Language
b)
Pathetic Fallacy
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Onomatopoeia
16.
What is colloquial language?
a)
Slang
b)
Words or expressions used in ordinary language by common people
c)
Sound effects of language
17.
What is flattery?
a)
Complimenting the audience
b)
An over exaggeration
c)
Addressing the reader directly
d)
A describing word
18.
What is a semantic field?
a)
Where the writer has compared 2 things using structure
b)
Using the same word or phrase throughout a text
c)
A sentence that is a question
d)
A group of words which all link to the same theme
19.
What is an imperative?
a)
A sentence that is a question
b)
A sentence that is an order
c)
A sentence that states something
d)
A sentence that is shouted
20.
What date is your Paper 1 exam?
a)
1st June
b)
5th June
c)
14th June
d)
8th June
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