Daily Practice · GCSE
September 1984 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 1984
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- 1st September 1984Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 2nd September 1984Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 3rd September 1984Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 4th September 1984Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 5th September 1984True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 6th September 1984Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 7th September 1984Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 8th September 1984In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 9th September 1984Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 10th September 1984Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 11th September 1984What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 12th September 1984Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 13th September 1984Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 14th September 1984Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 15th September 1984Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 16th September 1984How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 17th September 1984Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 18th September 1984Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 19th September 1984Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 20th September 1984Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 21st September 1984Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 22nd September 1984Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 23rd September 1984Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 24th September 1984What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 25th September 1984Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 26th September 1984Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 27th September 1984Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 28th September 1984Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 29th September 1984Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 30th September 1984Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'