Daily Practice · GCSE
April 1974 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1974Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 2nd April 1974Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 3rd April 1974Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 4th April 1974In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 5th April 1974Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 6th April 1974What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 7th April 1974Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 8th April 1974True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 9th April 1974What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 10th April 1974Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 11th April 1974Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 12th April 1974Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 13th April 1974Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 14th April 1974In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 15th April 1974Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 16th April 1974Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 17th April 1974Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 18th April 1974Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 19th April 1974True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 20th April 1974Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 21st April 1974Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 22nd April 1974In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 23rd April 1974Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 24th April 1974Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 25th April 1974Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 26th April 1974Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 27th April 1974Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 28th April 1974Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 29th April 1974Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 30th April 1974How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?