WorksheetsWriting Techniques GCSE
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'. This sentence is an example of;
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
When Shakespeare's Romeo said 'It is the east, and Juliet is the sun' he was using which technique?
Simile
Repetition
Direct Address
Metaphor
A leaflet title says 'Are you paying too much for your car insurance?'. This is an example of what type of persuasive technique?
Rhetorical question
Foreshadowing
Simile
Pathetic Fallacy
In Martin Luther King's famous speech, he says 'I have a dream' 8 times. What writing technique did he use?
Alliteration
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
By using repetition in a speech, Martin Luther King made his speech...
More believable
Forgettable
More simple
More memorable
Which of the following is an example of personification?
Children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim.
The city drags itself awake on subway straps.
I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war.
Lie stretching into dawn.
'The gigantic dog came hurtling back towards me at an unstoppable pace'. Which of the following words is an adjective?
Dog
Gigantic
Me
Pace
Which of the following best describes 'tone' in a piece of writing?
The level of formality in a piece of writing.
The type of text being written.
The expected readership of a piece of writing.
The mood the writer conveys, as well as the writer's attitude towards the subject and the reader.
'I ran down the street as fast as I could'. This sentence is an example of;
First person narration
Second person narration
Third person narration
None of the above
The New Years Eve fireworks boomed and crackled in the night sky. Boomed and crackled are examples of what?
Nouns
Similes
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
