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Descriptive Writing Revision
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1
If you do not use paragraphs, what level are you working at?
Level 2
Level 1
Level 3
Level 4
2
What technique is shown in "he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug"?
Pre-modification
Consonance
Post-modification
Personification
3
What technique is "the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet"?
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
4
Which of the following is not a sense to which we could refer in descriptive writing
Nociception
Thermoception
Pressure
Propriety
5
What technique is "Ma... brushes webs away, she says they’re dirty but they look like extra-thin silver to me"?
Alliteration
Post-modification
Prepositional Phrase
Simile
6
What technique is " I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death"
Personification
List of adjectives
Simile
Present Participle Clause
7
What technique is "From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked"?
Simile
Personification
Relative Clause
Present Participle Clause
8
If your work is "clear and consistent", what level are you working at?
Level 1
Level 3
Level 2
Level 4
9
What technique is shown in "The circles that she blew and rubbed on the window healed over in secret ferns of frost"?
Relative Clause
Alliteration
Personification
Present Participle Clause
10
What percentage of marks come from AO6, your spelling, punctuation and grammar?
10%
25%
40%
50%
11
AQA awards how many marks for your descriptive writing?
8
28
12
40
12
What does an adjective do?
Modify a noun
Modify an adverb
Describe a noun
Describe an verb
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What technique is "I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree"?
Assonance
Simile
Personification
Pre-modification
14
What is synaesthesia?
A medical condition
A grammatical structure
A synonym for urine
A multi-sensory descriptive technique
15
A prepositional phrase requires...
A preposition and a verb
A preposition and a noun
A preposition and a conjunction
A noun and verb
16
What technique is used in "The dark, foaming, ice-shored river was unlike Arkansas"?
Personification
Pre-modification
Metaphor
Post-modification
17
Which word(s) is (are) the adjective(s) in "Snow blew down the Royal Gorge in a horizontal blur"?
Down
Royal
Blew
horizontal
18
Synaesthesia is illustrated in which example below?
The cold air chilled me to the bone.
The cold light glinted through the window.
His cold finger touched her face tenderly.
The cold stone of his heart was brittle.
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What word below could link a relative clause to a noun?
Whether
Which
Why
Whom
20
What technique is "She sat erect there, lifting up in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff "?
Relative Clause
Alliteration
Post-modification
Present Participle Clause
