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March 2016 - GCSE 5-a-day

Every GCSE sheet published in March 2016, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.

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March 2016

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st March 2016True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
  2. 2nd March 2016Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
  3. 3rd March 2016Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
  4. 4th March 2016Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
  5. 5th March 2016Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
  6. 6th March 2016In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
  7. 7th March 2016Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
  8. 8th March 2016What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
  9. 9th March 2016Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
  10. 10th March 2016True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
  11. 11th March 2016Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
  12. 12th March 2016How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
  13. 13th March 2016Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
  14. 14th March 2016Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
  15. 15th March 2016Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
  16. 16th March 2016In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
  17. 17th March 2016Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
  18. 18th March 2016Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
  19. 19th March 2016Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
  20. 20th March 2016What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
  21. 21st March 2016True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
  22. 22nd March 2016Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
  23. 23rd March 2016Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
  24. 24th March 2016In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
  25. 25th March 2016Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
  26. 26th March 2016Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
  27. 27th March 2016How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
  28. 28th March 2016Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
  29. 29th March 2016Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
  30. 30th March 2016Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
  31. 31st March 2016Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'

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