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July 1990 5-a-day

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July 1990

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  1. 1st July 1990Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
  2. 2nd July 1990Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
  3. 3rd July 1990Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
  4. 4th July 1990Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
  5. 5th July 1990Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
  6. 6th July 1990Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
  7. 7th July 1990What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
  8. 8th July 1990Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
  9. 9th July 1990Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
  10. 10th July 1990What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
  11. 11th July 1990Why is the opening sentence ironic?
  12. 12th July 1990Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
  13. 13th July 1990Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
  14. 14th July 1990Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
  15. 15th July 1990How many sections does Paper 1 have?
  16. 16th July 1990True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
  17. 17th July 1990Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
  18. 18th July 1990Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
  19. 19th July 1990Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
  20. 20th July 1990Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
  21. 21st July 1990In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
  22. 22nd July 1990Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
  23. 23rd July 1990What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
  24. 24th July 1990Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
  25. 25th July 1990True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
  26. 26th July 1990Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
  27. 27th July 1990Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
  28. 28th July 1990Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
  29. 29th July 1990Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
  30. 30th July 1990Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
  31. 31st July 1990In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.

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