Writing Techniques GCSE

'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'. This sentence is an example of;

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

When Shakespeare's Romeo said 'It is the east, and Juliet is the sun' he was using which technique?

• Simile

• Repetition

• Direct Address

• Metaphor

A leaflet title says 'Are you paying too much for your car insurance?'. This is an example of what type of persuasive technique?

• Rhetorical question

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

• Pathetic Fallacy

In Martin Luther King's famous speech, he says 'I have a dream' 8 times. What writing technique did he use?

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

By using repetition in a speech, Martin Luther King made his speech...

• More believable

• Forgettable

• More simple

• More memorable

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• Children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim.

• The city drags itself awake on subway straps.

• I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war.

• Lie stretching into dawn.

'The gigantic dog came hurtling back towards me at an unstoppable pace'. Which of the following words is an adjective?

• Dog

• Gigantic

• Me

• Pace

Which of the following best describes 'tone' in a piece of writing?

• The level of formality in a piece of writing.

• The type of text being written.

• The expected readership of a piece of writing.

• The mood the writer conveys, as well as the writer's attitude towards the subject and the reader.

'I ran down the street as fast as I could'. This sentence is an example of;

• First person narration

• Second person narration

• Third person narration

• None of the above

The New Years Eve fireworks boomed and crackled in the night sky. Boomed and crackled are examples of what?

• Nouns

• Similes

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia