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English 2
GCSE Revision
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Choose the correct homophone to complete this sentence. The dog licked its / it’s bowl | ‘Its’ is the correct homophone: The dog licked its bowl |
| Where should the apostrophe go in this sentence? The two cats owners went away for a week. | The apostrophe should come after the ‘s’ in ‘cats’, because the owners belong to the cats and cats is plural: The two cats’ owners went away for a week. |
| What type of sentence is this? Chloe went to town and bought a new bag | This is a compound sentence. |
| What is a discourse marker? | A discourse marker is a word or phrase that connects sentences and paragraphs, e.g. However, Firstly. |
| What tense is used in this sentence? He was singing beautifully. | The past continuous tense is used in the sentence |
| What is meant by explicit information? | Explicit information is information that is openly stated in a text. |
| What is meant by implicit information? | Implicit information is information that is not openly stated in a text. The information is implied so you have to ‘read between the lines’ to find it. |
| What is a summary? | A summary is a shortened version of something. A summary contains the main points but leaves out unnecessary details. |
| What does PEE stand for? | PEE stands for Point, Evidence, Explain. • Make a point. • Give evidence (as a quotation or by paraphrasing). • Explain the evidence. |
| What word classes of words do these words belong to in sentence below 'Harry' and 'went' ? Harry went to work. | Harry went to work. Harry - (proper) noun went - verb |
| What is onomatopoeia? | Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like their meaning, e.g. ‘boom’, ‘squeak’. |
| What name is given to this example of figurative imagery? It was as cold and still as a statue. | This example of figurative imagery is a simile. |
| What is meant by reverse chronological order? | Reverse chronological order means starting with the most recent event and working backwards. |
| What is an inciting incident? | An inciting incident in a story is the event that really gets the story going. |
| List three ways in which we can learn about characters in a text. | We can learn about characters from: • The narrator’s description of them. • How the character behaves. • How other characters react to them. • What the character says and how they say it. • What other characters say to them and about them. |
| What is a protagonist? | A protagonist is the first-person voice of a character in a narrative, e.g. Jane in Jane Eyre. |
| What person is this sentence written in? She sang loudly, her fabulously powerful voice filling every corner of the room. | This sentence is written in the third person (he/she/it/they). |
| What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography? | A biography is the story of someone’s life, written by someone else. An autobiography is the story of someone’s life, written by that person. |
| List three types of non-fiction texts | There are many types of nonfiction texts, including: • Reviews • Newspaper and magazine articles/reports/features • Biographies/autobiographies • Letters • Diaries |
| What is meant by the purpose of writing? | The purpose of the writing is the reason why you are writing, e.g. to entertain, to inform or to advise. |
| List three organisational features you could use when writing an article for a newspaper, magazine or website. | Three organisational features you could use when writing an article for a newspaper, magazine or website are: • Subheadings • Headline • Strapline |
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