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Naming language techniques (GCSE)

9th grade (Year 10 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.5.A · England: GCSE English Language Paper 1 Q2, GCSE English Literature

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  1. Question 1

    Which technique is used here? The motorway was a river of red tail-lights.

    • A. metaphor
    • B. sibilance
    • C. personification
    • D. hyperbole

  2. Question 2

    Type the technique (in English) that matches this description. Using weather or setting to reflect a character's mood or the atmosphere.

    Answer

  3. Question 3

    Which technique matches this description? Giving human qualities or actions to something non-human.

    • A. pathetic fallacy
    • B. metaphor
    • C. simile
    • D. personification

The Flood

The river had been rising for three days, but in the village nobody spoke of it. People hung out washing, argued about football and queued at the bakery as if the brown water swelling beneath the bridge were simply another neighbour, loud but harmless. Nadia noticed. From her bedroom window she watched the river swallow the lowest step of the old jetty, then the second, then the third. At night she lay awake listening to it muttering against the stones, a low, endless grumble that seemed to grow hungrier by the hour. On the fourth morning, the sky was the colour of a bruise. Rain did not fall so much as hang in the air, soaking everything it touched. Nadia's grandmother, who had lived in the village for seventy years, stood at the door, sniffing the wind like an old dog. "Pack a bag," she said quietly. "Now." They were halfway up the hill when they heard it. A roar. A crack. Then silence, which was worse. Below them, the bridge had gone. Where it had stood, the river surged on, carrying fence posts, garden chairs and a single red umbrella, spinning slowly, like a flower.

  1. Question 4

    Read "The Flood". Which technique is used in 'the sky was the colour of a bruise'?

    • A. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain
    • B. hyperbole
    • C. onomatopoeia
    • D. a rhetorical question

  1. Question 5

    Which technique is used here? The motorway was a river of red tail-lights.

    • A. simile
    • B. pathetic fallacy
    • C. metaphor
    • D. sibilance

  2. Question 6

    Type the technique (in English) that matches this description. Describing something as if it IS something else, without 'like' or 'as'.

    Answer

  3. Question 7

    Which technique matches this description? Deliberate exaggeration for effect.

    • A. sibilance
    • B. hyperbole
    • C. personification
    • D. metaphor

The Flood

The river had been rising for three days, but in the village nobody spoke of it. People hung out washing, argued about football and queued at the bakery as if the brown water swelling beneath the bridge were simply another neighbour, loud but harmless. Nadia noticed. From her bedroom window she watched the river swallow the lowest step of the old jetty, then the second, then the third. At night she lay awake listening to it muttering against the stones, a low, endless grumble that seemed to grow hungrier by the hour. On the fourth morning, the sky was the colour of a bruise. Rain did not fall so much as hang in the air, soaking everything it touched. Nadia's grandmother, who had lived in the village for seventy years, stood at the door, sniffing the wind like an old dog. "Pack a bag," she said quietly. "Now." They were halfway up the hill when they heard it. A roar. A crack. Then silence, which was worse. Below them, the bridge had gone. Where it had stood, the river surged on, carrying fence posts, garden chairs and a single red umbrella, spinning slowly, like a flower.

  1. Question 8

    Read "The Flood". Which technique is used in 'the sky was the colour of a bruise'?

    • A. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain
    • B. hyperbole
    • C. onomatopoeia
    • D. a rhetorical question

  1. Question 9

    Which technique is used here? As the friends were finally reunited, the sun burst through the clouds.

    • A. metaphor
    • B. pathetic fallacy
    • C. juxtaposition
    • D. sibilance

  2. Question 10

    Type the technique (in English) that matches this description. Describing something as if it IS something else, without 'like' or 'as'.

    Answer

  3. Question 11

    Which technique matches this description? Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'.

    • A. simile
    • B. metaphor
    • C. sibilance
    • D. personification

The Flood

The river had been rising for three days, but in the village nobody spoke of it. People hung out washing, argued about football and queued at the bakery as if the brown water swelling beneath the bridge were simply another neighbour, loud but harmless. Nadia noticed. From her bedroom window she watched the river swallow the lowest step of the old jetty, then the second, then the third. At night she lay awake listening to it muttering against the stones, a low, endless grumble that seemed to grow hungrier by the hour. On the fourth morning, the sky was the colour of a bruise. Rain did not fall so much as hang in the air, soaking everything it touched. Nadia's grandmother, who had lived in the village for seventy years, stood at the door, sniffing the wind like an old dog. "Pack a bag," she said quietly. "Now." They were halfway up the hill when they heard it. A roar. A crack. Then silence, which was worse. Below them, the bridge had gone. Where it had stood, the river surged on, carrying fence posts, garden chairs and a single red umbrella, spinning slowly, like a flower.

  1. Question 12

    Read "The Flood". Which technique is used in 'the sky was the colour of a bruise'?

    • A. hyperbole
    • B. onomatopoeia
    • C. a rhetorical question
    • D. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain

  1. Question 13

    Which technique is used here? In the gleaming shop window, luxury watches sparkled; on the pavement outside, a man slept under cardboard.

    • A. simile
    • B. pathetic fallacy
    • C. juxtaposition
    • D. hyperbole

  2. Question 14

    Type the technique (in English) that matches this description. Deliberate exaggeration for effect.

    Answer

  3. Question 15

    Which technique matches this description? Describing something as if it IS something else, without 'like' or 'as'.

    • A. juxtaposition
    • B. personification
    • C. metaphor
    • D. simile

The Flood

The river had been rising for three days, but in the village nobody spoke of it. People hung out washing, argued about football and queued at the bakery as if the brown water swelling beneath the bridge were simply another neighbour, loud but harmless. Nadia noticed. From her bedroom window she watched the river swallow the lowest step of the old jetty, then the second, then the third. At night she lay awake listening to it muttering against the stones, a low, endless grumble that seemed to grow hungrier by the hour. On the fourth morning, the sky was the colour of a bruise. Rain did not fall so much as hang in the air, soaking everything it touched. Nadia's grandmother, who had lived in the village for seventy years, stood at the door, sniffing the wind like an old dog. "Pack a bag," she said quietly. "Now." They were halfway up the hill when they heard it. A roar. A crack. Then silence, which was worse. Below them, the bridge had gone. Where it had stood, the river surged on, carrying fence posts, garden chairs and a single red umbrella, spinning slowly, like a flower.

  1. Question 16

    Read "The Flood". Which technique is used in 'the sky was the colour of a bruise'?

    • A. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain
    • B. onomatopoeia
    • C. hyperbole
    • D. a rhetorical question

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  1. metaphor
  2. pathetic fallacy
  3. personification
  4. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain
  5. metaphor
  6. metaphor
  7. hyperbole
  8. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain
  9. pathetic fallacy
  10. metaphor
  11. simile
  12. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain
  13. juxtaposition
  14. hyperbole
  15. metaphor
  16. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain