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Language - A Christmas Carol (stave 1&2)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the technique: He opened his ferret eyes

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Pathetic fallacy

d)

Onomatopoeia

2.

Identify the technique: Scrooge knew he was dead?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Repetition

d)

Rhetorical question

3.

Identify the technique: Hard and sharp as flint

a)

Repetition

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteration

d)

Simile

4.

Identify the technique: It was cold, bleak, biting weather

a)

List of three

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Repetition

5.

Identify the technique: the houses opposite were mere phantoms

a)

Alliteration

b)

Repetition

c)

Metaphor

d)

Sibilance

6.

Identify the technique: The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge

a)

Repetition

b)

Anaphora

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

7.

Identify the sentence structure: The cold became intense.

a)

Fragment

b)

Simple

c)

Compound

d)

Complex

8.

Identify the technique: Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern

a)

Repetition

b)

Alliteration

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Simile

9.

Identify the sentence structure: `Humbug!' said Scrooge; and walked across the room.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Fragment

10.

Identify the technique: The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound

a)

Simile

b)

Anaphora

c)

Repetition

d)

Onomatopoeia

11.

Identify the word class of the words in bold:with a strange, inexplicable dread

a)

Adverb

b)

Verb

c)

Adjective

d)

Noun

12.

Identify the technique: his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Repetition

d)

Personification

13.

Identify the technique: Ding, dong!

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Simile

c)

Anaphora

d)

Emotive language

14.

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.

a)

Repetition

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Metaphor

15.

Identify the word class in bold: he instantly began again,

a)

Noun

b)

Verb

c)

Adjective

d)

Adverb

16.

Identify the technique: There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye

a)

Simile

b)

Alliteration

c)

List of three

d)

Repetition

17.

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.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Repetition

d)

Anaphora

18.

Identify the word class in bold: `I was a boy,' he said impatiently.

a)

Adverb

b)

Adjective

c)

Noun

d)

Pronoun

19.

Identify the word class in bold:he seized the extinguisher-cap

a)

Noun

b)

Adjective

c)

Adverb

d)

Verb

20.

Identify the word class in bold: The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.'

a)

Abstract noun

b)

Concrete noun

c)

Proper noun

d)

Pronoun