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Section A: Reading
Spend 30 minutes on this section.
Read the text in the Insert, and answer Questions 1-10.
1 Look at lines 1–9.
(a) What part of speech are the hyphenated ( - ) words? Tick ( ✓ ) one box.
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(b) Look at the exclamation mark ( ! ).
What does it tell the reader about the boy’s attitude to the beast’s head?
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(c) Give one word that means ‘fearlessly’.
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2 Look at lines 10–15.
(a) Why does the writer use a dash ( – ) in line 10?
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(b) Look at lines 11–12.
What literary technique is used in this sentence?
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(c) What does this sentence tell the reader about how the boy feels?
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3 Look at lines 16-22.
(a) Give one word that tells the reader the beast’s voice was very loud.
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(b) Explain how the writer structures this section to build tension. Give two ways.
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4 Look at line 26.
What are the two literary techniques used in this sentence?
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5 Look at lines 27–39.
In what ways do you think the boy is unheroic? Give two reasons and support each reason
with a quotation from the text.
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6 Look at lines 40–41.
What does gulping tell the reader about how the boy feels now?
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7 Look at this extract, the claws of the game digging into the flesh of the here and now in lines
43–44.
What does this tell the reader? Tick ( ✓ ) one box.
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8 Look at lines 48–54. How does the writer make Phoenix’s experience sound realistic? Give
two explanations and support each explanation with a quotation from the text.
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9 Look at lines 55–64. Phoenix’s father is pleased with himself.
Explain how the writer shows how the father feels. Give one way and support your answer
using evidence from the text.
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10 Look at line 39. Explain why the writer starts a new chapter at that point in the text.
Give two reasons.
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