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January 1954

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  1. 1st January 1954How many sections does Paper 1 have?
  2. 2nd January 1954True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
  3. 3rd January 1954Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
  4. 4th January 1954Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
  5. 5th January 1954Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
  6. 6th January 1954Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
  7. 7th January 1954In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
  8. 8th January 1954Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
  9. 9th January 1954What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
  10. 10th January 1954Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
  11. 11th January 1954True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
  12. 12th January 1954What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
  13. 13th January 1954Why is the opening sentence ironic?
  14. 14th January 1954Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
  15. 15th January 1954Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
  16. 16th January 1954Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
  17. 17th January 1954In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
  18. 18th January 1954Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
  19. 19th January 1954Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
  20. 20th January 1954Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
  21. 21st January 1954Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
  22. 22nd January 1954True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
  23. 23rd January 1954Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
  24. 24th January 1954Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
  25. 25th January 1954In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
  26. 26th January 1954Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
  27. 27th January 1954Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
  28. 28th January 1954Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
  29. 29th January 1954Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
  30. 30th January 1954Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
  31. 31st January 1954Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'

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