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WorksheetsCIPP fiction questions, Boogii
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
1.What is flitting like bats an example of?
alliteration
metaphor
rhyme
simile
2.Look at these two phrases
‘... their gymslips – a different colour for each house – and the school
badge ...’
‘... which she often chewed absent-mindedly (another thing she was told
off about) ...’
Why have dashes and brackets been used in these phrases?
to add extra information/to give more detail
to give opposite idea/to tell more detail
to tell about some parts are missing/to give more about
to
emphasis meanong of the part/to give more detail
3.Name the genre of fiction text?
Give more than one answer.
Fantacy
Horror
Humour
Newpaper/Articles
Traditional Tale
4.Give one example of a countable noun and one example of an uncountable
noun from the first sentence.
I rubbed my eyes and breathed in deeply, filling my lungs with the cool night air.
breath
eyes/lung
air
cool
5.Give one example of an adjective that is being used as a noun in the
paragraph.
The forest was dark and still. This was the dark before the dawn. The dark
when the spirits walked.
dark
forest
still
when
6.Give a three-word phrase from the paragraph that is an example of rhyme.
Moonlight reflected from
the wide pools below the waterfall, the ripples spreading in perfect circles of
bright, white light.
below, light, white
Moonlight, pools, below
bright, white light
perfect, reflected, waterfall
7.What does the metaphor the knife-edge tell us about the wind?
He could smell the storm coming, the scent of
snow on the knife-edge of the wind. His last hunt before true winter.
The wind feels sharp like a knife.
knife is sharp to cut
The edge of khife is strong.
snow is coming so you can cut it with sharp knife.
8.Give one example of reported speech from this paragraph.
My father loved it, he said, because the air was clear and clean.
No brick dust – he worked down at the brickworks. He was a great do-it-yourself
fanatic.
my father loved it.
My father loved it, he said
He worked down
He was great, to do-it-yourself.
9.Explain why the writer uses some long and some short sentences here.
Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp,
Billy caught sight of a printed notice. It said BED AND BREAKFAST.
He stopped walking.
He moved a bit closer.
short clauses
The writer uses short sentences to create drama/suspense / catch the
reader’s attention.
The writer uses long sentences to give a detailed description of the window.
Repetition of –ing verb form
10.‘“You’re horrible and cruel! All of you!” He threw the words high and shrill at all
those adults standing there on the beach.’
Why does the writer use the word ‘threw’ in these lines?
to emphasise that the boy is small and young
to emphasise that the boy is angry and upset.
to show that the boy is breathless from running
to show that the boy is speaking from a distance
