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January 2021 - GCSE 5-a-day

Every GCSE sheet published in January 2021, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.

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January 2021

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 2021What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
  2. 2nd January 2021Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
  3. 3rd January 2021Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
  4. 4th January 2021Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
  5. 5th January 2021Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
  6. 6th January 2021Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
  7. 7th January 2021Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
  8. 8th January 2021Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
  9. 9th January 2021How many sections does Paper 1 have?
  10. 10th January 2021True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
  11. 11th January 2021Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
  12. 12th January 2021What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
  13. 13th January 2021Why is the opening sentence ironic?
  14. 14th January 2021Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
  15. 15th January 2021In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
  16. 16th January 2021Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
  17. 17th January 2021What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
  18. 18th January 2021Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
  19. 19th January 2021True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
  20. 20th January 2021Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
  21. 21st January 2021Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
  22. 22nd January 2021Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
  23. 23rd January 2021Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
  24. 24th January 2021Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
  25. 25th January 2021In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
  26. 26th January 2021Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
  27. 27th January 2021Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
  28. 28th January 2021Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
  29. 29th January 2021Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
  30. 30th January 2021True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
  31. 31st January 2021Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'

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