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GCSE English Practice Test: Emotive Language
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Writers use emotive language in order to have a greater emotional impact on their audience.

Words can evoke positive emotions, as in: 'Brave gran risks life to save emaciated orphan'. Or the goal can be more negative: 'Abandoned children found in filthy, flea-infested flat'. It's important both to be aware of the effect this language can have on you as a reader, and to be able to achieve the same effect in your own writing.

GCSE English Practice Test: Emotive Language
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1. 'Devious employee fleeces nursing home owner'
Which are the emotive words in this headline?
2. 'Can you really abandon these puppies to life in such filthy kennels?'
Which are the emotive words in this appeal?
3. 'Our obesity-conquering cookbook is bursting with easy, fun recipes to try!'
Which are the emotive words in this blurb?
4. 'Weasels will live anywhere smelly / Inside a maggoty sheep carcase / Or a rotted tree-stump, / A crumbled wall crevice or a fish hole / In the riverbank. Their innocent babies / Nest tight at the back of the holes.'
Which are the emotive words used by John Tripp in these lines from his poem, 'Weasels'?
5. 'How else dispose of an immortal force / No longer needed? / Staunch it at its source / With cinder loads dumped down? / The brook was thrown / Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone / In fetid darkness still to live and run'
Which are the emotive words used by Robert Frost in these lines from his poem, 'A Brook in the City'?
6. 'Doctor escapes jail for botched surgery'
Which are the emotive words in this headline?
7. 'Devious employee fleeces nursing home owner'
Which are the emotive words in this headline?
8. 'If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs / Bitter as the cud / Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues'
Which are the emotive words used by Wilfred Owen in these lines from 'Dulce et Decorum Est'?
9. 'How else dispose of an immortal force / No longer needed? / Staunch it at its source / With cinder loads dumped down? / The brook was thrown / Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone / In fetid darkness still to live and run'
Which are the emotive words used by Robert Frost in these lines from his poem, 'A Brook in the City'?
10. 'Our obesity-conquering cookbook is bursting with easy, fun recipes to try!'
Which are the emotive words in this blurb?

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