WorksheetsPaper 2 Section A Cider with Rosie extract
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
Key definition term: what does the term autobiography mean?
A text written by the person about their own life.
A text written about someone else's life.
Vocabulary: what does the word 'bewilderment' mean in relation to how Laurie Lee is feeling?
Laurie Lee is feeling scared and upset
Laurie Lee is feeling completely puzzled or confused, possibly perplexed.
Laurie Lee is feeling completely at peace and happy.
Laurie Lee is feeling thoughtful and reflective.
AO2: Which technique is being used to describe the grass with the phrase: "each blade tattooed with tiger skins of sunlight".
simile
metaphor
personification
pathetic fallacy
Write four interesting ideas about the language used in this sentence: "It was knife edged, dark and a wicket green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered and leapt through the air like monkeys."
What is the correct order of the techniques being used with "It was knife edged, dark and a wicket green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered and leapt through the air like monkeys."
simile, senses, metaphor, senses, alliteration, metaphor
metaphor, metaphor, simile, simile, metaphor, imagery,
simile, senses, senses, metaphor, simile, senses
metaphor, senses, simile, senses, alliteration, simile.
What explicit information is shared with the topic sentence of the third paragraph: "I was lost and didn't know where to move."
Laurie Lee is lost.
Laurie Lee is scared.
Laurie Lee is lost and does not know where to go.
Laurie Lee is lost, but knows where to go.
What could be connoted from the phrase, "A tropical heat oozed up from the ground,"
Connotation that the heat is fresh and calmly rising. The heat in the ground is cold and wet.
Connotation that the intense hot heat is slowly rising from the ground, with the sensation that Lee is sinking into the ground.
Look for the phrase and complete the missing word from the extract, "High overhead, birds _____________ as though they were ___________ the sky apart." Separate the two words with a comma.
(a)
What might the word 'screamed' indicate about the behaviour of the birds? How does this contribute towards the horror of the scene?
The verb 'screamed' indicates a sense of fear, it might encourage the reader to question why the birds are making this unseemly unnatural noise.
The adjective 'screamed' indicates a sense of loss, it might encourage the reader to question why the birds are making this unseemly unnatural noise.
What might the word 'tearing' indicate about the behaviour of the birds? How does this contribute towards the horror of the scene?
The verb 'tearing' indicates that the bird's movement in the sky is violent and possibly creates the image that the sky is being destroyed by their flight path. That they are almost ripping the sky up with their movement.
The noun 'tearing' indicates that the bird's movement in the sky is soft and that the birds are possibly upset and crying.
What effect on the reader might Laurie Lee have intended when he wrote: "For the first time in my life I was out of the sight of humans, alone in a world I could neither predict nor fathom."?
What does the word 'fathom' mean? In the phrase: 'I could neither predict nor fathom.'
To penetrate to the truth of; comprehend; understand.
To calculate the meaning in order to understand.
To analyse the meaning in order to understand.
To explain the meaning in order to understand.
How are the techniques used in the following sentence? "I put back my head and howled, and the sun hit me smartly in the face, like a bully." Select the best analysis.
The harsh sound of the letter 'h' is being used alliteratively, which sounds like he is being hit.
The harsh sound of the letter 'h' is being used alliteratively to echo the sound of him being hit in the face. This is reinforced and echoed by the simile and the knowledge that the sun hits him in the face.
The harsh sound of the letter 'h' is being alliteratively to echo the sound of him being hit in the face. This is reinforced and echoed by the simile and the knowledge that the sun hits him in the face. The sun's force is demonstrated by the simile ending in 'like a bully' showing the force of the sun touching his face is strong and powerful.
Which techniques are being used: "They came scrambling and calling up the steep rough banks. Like shields between me and the sky ..."
Thoughtful nouns and a metaphor
Thoughtful verbs and a simile
Re-read the last paragraph. Find four true statements from the list below
The year was 1918
The family were moving from the city to the countryside.
No-one else in the family feels lost like Laurie Lee.
The family are like explorers in a strange land.
The family were all feeling lost.
