WorksheetsMr Gillespie's Big Fat End-of-Term Quiz
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
Complete the line: 'The lone and level sands ________________' (Ozymandias)
stretch far beyond
stretch far away
lead far away
stretch far to the horizon
Complete the line: 'Blights with plague __________________' (London)
the marriage knell
the honoured gentlemen
the marriage hearse
the moral hearse
Complete the line: 'This grew, I gave commands, and then___________' (MLD)
all laughter stopped at once
all smiles stopped together
she became nothing more than a painting
her eyes closed
Complete the line: 'Spools of suffering in _____________' (War Photographer)
black and white
daylight prints
a dozen wars
ordered rows
Complete the line: 'Spits like a _____________' (SOTI)
wild tiger
garden spinkler
caged prisoner
tame cat
Complete the line: 'And the drink and the drugs won't ___________' (Remains)
flush him out
blot him away
take him away
make a difference
Technique: 'Stormed at with shot and shell' (COTLB)
Emjambment
Verb list
Onomatopoeia
Sibilance
Technique: 'His bloody life in my bloody hands' (Remains)
Metaphor
Juxtaposition
Ambiguity
Oxymoron
Technique: 'A huge peak...upreared its head' (Prelude)
Simile
Contrast
Caesura
Personification
Technique: 'A yellow hare the rolled like a flame' (BC)
Symbolism
Metaphor
Violent imagery
Caesura
Technique: The style of poetry that Browning (MLD) was famous for
Sonnet
Limerick
Dramatic monologue
Dual dialogue
Technique: The title of the poem 'Remains'
Onomatopoeia
Ambiguity
Irony
Metaphor
Word implication: 'SNEER of cold command' (Ozymandias)
He had a deformed face
He looked impatient
He looked arrogant
He looked as if he were about to sneeze
Word implication: 'There HUNG a darkness' (Prelude)
The memory of the mountain hangs over him
The depression he feels took over everything and stayed for some time
The depression left him thinking about suicide
There was a loss of love of nature
Word implication: 'All flesh is GRASS' (War Photographer)
Body parts were mixed in with the grass
The massacres were hidden by nature
Life is delicate and often not valued
Life works in a circle
Word implication: 'Forgetting that it (the storm) PUMMELS your house too' (SOTI)
The storm repeatedly batters his house
The storm is trying to lift up his house
The storm gently caresses his house
The storm quickly moves away from his house
Word implication: 'My GIFT of a nine hundred year old name' (MLD)
The Duke was grateful to be a member of this particular family
The Duke had little to offer to the marriage in terms of money
The Duke thought his wife was only marrying him to become famous
The Duke felt that his wife should have felt grateful to marry him
Theme: 'We are bombarded by the empty air' (SOTI)
Power of humans
Power of nature
Good vs evil
Guilt
Theme: 'With hands that did not tremble then but do so now' (WP)
Memory
Loss and absence
Reality of conflict
Effects of conflict
Theme: 'I choose never to stoop' (MLD)
Fear
Power of humans
Individual experiences
Pride
Theme: 'His bloody life in my bloody hands' (Remains)
Reality of conflict
Guilt
Fear
Memory
Theme: 'Those who had fought so well' (COTLB)
Reality of conflict
Effects of conflict
Pride
Loss and absence
Theme: 'His terror's touchy dynamite' (BC)
Pride
Individual experiences
Fear
Memory
How many marks is GCSE English Language: Paper 1, Section A worth in total?
20
30
40
50
What often causes students to make a basic error when responding to question 1?
They can't count to 4
They leave the question till the end then run out of time
They use quotes rather than paraphrasing
They don't focus on the topic word in the question
Which of these is NOT one of the most common language techniques identified for P1, Q2?
Simile
Metaphor
Verb selection
Assonance
Which of these is NOT a specific marking criteria point for P1, Q2?
Reading into language choices
Consideration of context
Judicious quote choices
Identification of language techniques
How long should be spent on P1, Q2?
5 minutes
8 minutes
10 minutes
15 minutes
Which of these is NOT considered a sign of the very best P1, Q2 answers?
Accurate spelling and punctuation
Offering alterative views about the same quote
Consideration of how the reader might respond
Embedding short quotes into discursive sentences to support views
Why do students tend to struggle with the structure question (P1, Q3) in particular?
They don't leave enough time for it
It is a concept that isn't widely taught in younger years
They misread it as a language question
They can't break the text down into individual sections
Which of these is NOT a structural technique?
Foreshadowing
Zooming in
Onomatopoeia
Development
Which of these is considered both a language and structural technique?
Zooming out
Listing
Metaphors
Perspective
Why is the structure of the Tell-Tale Heart considered unusual for a short story?
It contains a cliffhanger
Key information about the mid-section is revealed at the start
It has two climatic points
It is written from different perspectives
In the Tell-Tale Heart, as the murderer builds towards confessing, how is structure used to indicate he is losing control?
Repeated changes of tense
Lots and lots of short exclamative sentences
A long section of enjambment
Lots of one line paragraphs
What is often the biggest cause of lost marks for P1, Q4?
Failure to leave adequate time to answer the question
Misreading of the statement
Forgetting to use quotes
Referring to only one paragraph within the text
What can cause a student's marks to be capped at half marks in P1, Q4?
Inaccurate spelling and punctuation
Referring to the wrong text section
Failing to offer their own opinions
Only responding to one part of a two-part statement
