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April 2015 - GCSE 5-a-day

Every GCSE sheet published in April 2015, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.

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April 2015

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 2015Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
  2. 2nd April 2015Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
  3. 3rd April 2015Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
  4. 4th April 2015Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
  5. 5th April 2015In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
  6. 6th April 2015Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
  7. 7th April 2015What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
  8. 8th April 2015Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
  9. 9th April 2015True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
  10. 10th April 2015Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
  11. 11th April 2015How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
  12. 12th April 2015Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
  13. 13th April 2015Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
  14. 14th April 2015Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
  15. 15th April 2015In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
  16. 16th April 2015Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
  17. 17th April 2015Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
  18. 18th April 2015Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
  19. 19th April 2015What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
  20. 20th April 2015True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
  21. 21st April 2015Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
  22. 22nd April 2015Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
  23. 23rd April 2015In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
  24. 24th April 2015Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
  25. 25th April 2015Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
  26. 26th April 2015How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
  27. 27th April 2015Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
  28. 28th April 2015Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
  29. 29th April 2015Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
  30. 30th April 2015Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'

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