English
Stage 7
Paper 2 Fiction
2023
1 hour 10 minutes
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INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
• You should pay attention to punctuation, spelling and handwriting.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
• Suggestions for how long to spend on each section are given in the booklet.
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Section A: Reading
Spend 30 minutes on this section.
Read the Text in the insert, and answer questions 1–11.
1
Look at lines 3–5.
(a) What figurative technique is used? Tick () one box.
simile
oxymoron
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
[1]
(b) The writer also uses sibilance.
What effect does this create?
[1]
2
Look at lines 6–7. Why is there no point in Raglan Skein taking his sense of touch with him when
he flies away?
[1]
3
Look at lines 8–13.
What grammatical structure does the writer use at the beginning of the first sentence?
[1]
4
People from the Lost tribe are able to experience sensations from different locations all at the
same time.
Give one quotation that tells the reader how they do that.
[1]
5
The writer uses however (line 14) to introduce a contrast between the third and fourth paragraph.
Explain what this contrast is.
[2]
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Look at lines 18–22. People living on the island face dangers on and around the island.
Give one example.
[1]
7
Look at lines 23–31.
(a) Most of the paragraph is made up of complex and compound-complex sentences.
Why?
[1]
(b) The writer uses commas in this paragraph in two different ways.
Tick () two boxes.
before direct speech
between subordinate clauses
before and after extra information
between items on a list
after a time adverbial
[2]
8
Look at lines 32–35. The eagles see the towns as living creatures.
Give a quotation that tells the reader this.
[1]
9
Look at lines 39–44.
(a) Raglan Skein sets off on a journey the next day.
What is the purpose of this journey?
[1]
(b) Give evidence from the text that tells the reader that Raglan Skein’s journey will take longer
by body than it has taken him by his senses.
[1]
(c) Give a three-word phrase that means ‘were hiding, ready to attack’.
[1]
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10 (a) Look at lines 45–50.
Give one three-word phrase that means ‘a difficult job’.
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(b) What are the main dangers for a person arriving on the Lace coast by boat?
Give two ideas and support each idea with evidence from the text.
Idea: you might be attacked
Evidence: ambushes and surprises / trickery
and concealment
Idea 1
Evidence 1
Idea 2
Evidence 2
[4]
11 Look at lines 51–53.
(a) Here refers back to the previous paragraph.
Give one more adverb that does this.
[1]
(b) What do you think the Lace people are like? Give two ideas and support each idea with
evidence from the text.
First idea:
Evidence 1:
Second idea:
Evidence 2:
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Section B: Writing
Spend 30 minutes on this section.
12 Raglan Skein arrives safely on the Coast of the Lace. Write what happens next.
You could write about:
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how the Lace people treat him
whether his shadowy suspicions about the Lace people are correct
the outcome of their meeting.
Space for your plan:
Write your story on the next page.
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