Daily Practice · GCSE
May 1955 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1955Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 2nd May 1955In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 3rd May 1955Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 4th May 1955What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 5th May 1955Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 6th May 1955True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 7th May 1955Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 8th May 1955What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 9th May 1955Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 10th May 1955Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 11th May 1955Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 12th May 1955In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 13th May 1955Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 14th May 1955Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 15th May 1955How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 16th May 1955Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 17th May 1955True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 18th May 1955Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 19th May 1955Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 20th May 1955In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 21st May 1955Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 22nd May 1955Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 23rd May 1955Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 24th May 1955Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 25th May 1955Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 26th May 1955Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 27th May 1955Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 28th May 1955How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 29th May 1955Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 30th May 1955Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 31st May 1955What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?