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WorksheetsLanguage - A Christmas Carol (staves 4&5)
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Identify the technique: The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.
Simile
Repetition
Metaphor
List of three
Identify the word class in bold: It was shrouded in a deep black garment
Noun
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
Identify the technique: They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seemed to spring up about them, and encompass them of its own act.
Personification
Simile
Anaphora
Metaphor
Identify the word class in bold: a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop
adjective
noun
adverb
verb
Identify the sentence structure: Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.
Fragment
Complex
Simple
Compound
Identify the technique: Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion.
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Identify the techniques: unwatched, unwept, uncared for
Alliteration and simile
List of three and onomatopoeia
Metaphor and simile
Alliteration and a list of three
Identify the technique: The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Hyperbole
Identify the word class in bold: Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
adverb
noun
verb
adjective
Identify the sentence structure: He was reconciled to what had happened, and went down again quite happy.
Fragment
Simple
Complex
Compound
Identify the sentence structure: A churchyard.
Simple
Fragment
Complex
Compound
Identify the technique: It was a worthy place. Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. A worthy place.
Simile
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Anaphora
Identify the technique: am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Rhetorical question
Simile
Identify the technique: Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Identify the technique: He would have snapped them short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.
Repetition
Metaphor
Simile
Sibilance
Which word is a synonym of encompass?
arrange
hug
gather
surround
Which word is a synonym of excrescence?
growth
bone
exaggerated
decrease
Which word is a synonym of repute
good
reputation
solid
careful
Which of the following is a synonym of charwoman?
Firefighter
Shopkeeper
Cleaner
Undertaker
Which of these is a synonym of odious?
Ill
Smelly
Lovely
Abhorrent
Which of the following is an synonym of careworn?
Sleepy
Healthy
Beautiful
Fatigued
Which of the following is an antonym of dwindled?
decay
develop
age
shuffle
