Daily Practice · GCSE
February 1997 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in February 1997, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in February 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1997Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 2nd February 1997Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 3rd February 1997Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 4th February 1997Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 5th February 1997Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 6th February 1997Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 7th February 1997Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 8th February 1997How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 9th February 1997True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 10th February 1997Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 11th February 1997What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 12th February 1997Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 13th February 1997Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 14th February 1997In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 15th February 1997Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 16th February 1997What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 17th February 1997Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 18th February 1997True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 19th February 1997Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 20th February 1997Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 21st February 1997Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 22nd February 1997Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 23rd February 1997Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 24th February 1997In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 25th February 1997Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 26th February 1997Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 27th February 1997Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 28th February 1997Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.