WorksheetsLanguage - A Christmas Carol (Stave 3)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Identify the word class in bold: he was taken with a violent fit of trembling.
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Identify the technique: he got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to the door.
Simile
Metaphor
Sibilance
Repetition
Identify the sentence structure: It was his own room.
Complex
Simple
Fragment
Compound
Identify the technique: from every part of which, bright gleaming berries glistened.
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Identify the word class in bold: Scrooge entered timidly
Adjective
Verb
Noun
Adverb
What does this description imply about the ghost? “Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air.”
It is angry and threatening
It scares Scrooge
It is friendly and welcoming
It is unhappy
What does the word in bold imply about the Scrooge? `Spirit,' said Scrooge submissively,' conduct me where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now.
Scrooge is arguing with the ghost
Scrooge is willing to obey the ghost
Scrooge is threatening the ghost
Scrooge thinks the ghost can't help him
Identify the technique: Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
List
Identify the technique: There were great, round, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Hyperbole
What does this description imply about Bob Cratchit: "his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed"
His clothes are old and worn but he tries to look tidy.
He is scruffy and careless about his appearance.
He has nice quality clothing.
Identify the word class in bold: Mrs Cratchit entered -- flushed, but smiling proudly
Noun
Adverb
Verb
Adjective
Identify the technique: Oh, a wonderful pudding. Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage.
Hyperbole
Simile
Repetition
Anaphora
Identify the word class in bold: Bob held his withered little hand in his
Adjective
Adverb
Pronoun
Verb
Identify the technique: monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about
Simile
Repetition
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Identify the technique: From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.
Hyperbole
Simile
List
Repetition
