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WorksheetsLanguage - A Christmas Carol (stave 1&2)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name the technique: He opened his ferret eyes
Simile
Metaphor
Pathetic fallacy
Onomatopoeia
Identify the technique: Scrooge knew he was dead?
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Rhetorical question
Identify the technique: Hard and sharp as flint
Repetition
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Identify the technique: It was cold, bleak, biting weather
List of three
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Identify the technique: the houses opposite were mere phantoms
Alliteration
Repetition
Metaphor
Sibilance
Identify the technique: The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge
Repetition
Anaphora
Simile
Personification
Identify the sentence structure: The cold became intense.
Fragment
Simple
Compound
Complex
Identify the technique: Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern
Repetition
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Identify the sentence structure: `Humbug!' said Scrooge; and walked across the room.
Simple
Compound
Complex
Fragment
Identify the technique: The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound
Simile
Anaphora
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Identify the word class of the words in bold:with a strange, inexplicable dread
Adverb
Verb
Adjective
Noun
Identify the technique: his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released
Metaphor
Simile
Repetition
Personification
Identify the technique: Ding, dong!
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Anaphora
Emotive language
Identify the technique: All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it.
Repetition
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Identify the word class in bold: he instantly began again,
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Identify the technique: There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye
Simile
Alliteration
List of three
Repetition
Identify the technique: There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Anaphora
Identify the word class in bold: `I was a boy,' he said impatiently.
Adverb
Adjective
Noun
Pronoun
Identify the word class in bold:he seized the extinguisher-cap
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
Verb
Identify the word class in bold: The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.'
Abstract noun
Concrete noun
Proper noun
Pronoun
