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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 traffic lights winked at us.

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

  2. Question 2

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

    Answer

  3. Question 3

    Which technique matches this description? Deliberate exaggeration for effect.

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

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? As the friends were finally reunited, the sun burst through the clouds.

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

  2. Question 6

    Type the technique (in English) that matches this description. Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'.

    Answer

  3. Question 7

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

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

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

  1. Question 9

    Which technique is used here? The kettle sang happily on the stove.

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

  2. Question 10

    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 11

    Which technique matches this description? Placing two contrasting things side by side to highlight the difference.

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

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

  1. Question 13

    Which technique is used here? The old house groaned in the wind.

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

  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. metaphor
    • B. juxtaposition
    • C. hyperbole
    • 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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Answer key: Naming language techniques (GCSE)

  1. 1. C. personification

  2. 2. metaphor

  3. 3. A. hyperbole

  4. 4. A. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain

  5. 5. C. pathetic fallacy

  6. 6. simile

  7. 7. A. metaphor

  8. 8. B. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain

  9. 9. A. personification

  10. 10. pathetic fallacy

  11. 11. D. juxtaposition

  12. 12. B. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain

  13. 13. B. personification

  14. 14. hyperbole

  15. 15. A. metaphor

  16. 16. A. pathetic fallacy, using the sky to reflect danger and pain