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Language - A Christmas Carol (staves 4&5)

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the technique: The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.

a)

Simile

b)

Repetition

c)

Metaphor

d)

List of three

2.

Identify the word class in bold: It was shrouded in a deep black garment

a)

Noun

b)

Adjective

c)

Verb

d)

Adverb

3.

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.

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Anaphora

d)

Metaphor

4.

Identify the word class in bold: a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop

a)

adjective

b)

noun

c)

adverb

d)

verb

5.

Identify the sentence structure: Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.

a)

Fragment

b)

Complex

c)

Simple

d)

Compound

6.

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.

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Repetition

7.

Identify the techniques: unwatched, unwept, uncared for

a)

Alliteration and simile

b)

List of three and onomatopoeia

c)

Metaphor and simile

d)

Alliteration and a list of three

8.

Identify the technique: The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Repetition

d)

Hyperbole

9.

Identify the word class in bold: Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.

a)

adverb

b)

noun

c)

verb

d)

adjective

10.

Identify the sentence structure: He was reconciled to what had happened, and went down again quite happy.

a)

Fragment

b)

Simple

c)

Complex

d)

Compound

11.

Identify the sentence structure: A churchyard.

a)

Simple

b)

Fragment

c)

Complex

d)

Compound

12.

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.

a)

Simile

b)

Repetition

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Anaphora

13.

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.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Rhetorical question

d)

Simile

14.

Identify the technique: Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

15.

Identify the technique: He would have snapped them short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.

a)

Repetition

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Sibilance

16.

Which word is a synonym of encompass?

a)

arrange

b)

hug

c)

gather

d)

surround

17.

Which word is a synonym of excrescence?

a)

growth

b)

bone

c)

exaggerated

d)

decrease

18.

Which word is a synonym of repute

a)

good

b)

reputation

c)

solid

d)

careful

19.

Which of the following is a synonym of charwoman?

a)

Firefighter

b)

Shopkeeper

c)

Cleaner

d)

Undertaker

20.

Which of these is a synonym of odious?

a)

Ill

b)

Smelly

c)

Lovely

d)

Abhorrent

21.

Which of the following is an synonym of careworn?

a)

Sleepy

b)

Healthy

c)

Beautiful

d)

Fatigued

22.

Which of the following is an antonym of dwindled?

a)

decay

b)

develop

c)

age

d)

shuffle