GCSE English Language Techniques Worksheet | Techniques Identification Practice

This worksheet helps students practise identifying key language techniques used in GCSE English analysis.

Students read a series of sentences and identify the language technique used in each example. The worksheet covers a range of important techniques commonly taught at GCSE, including figurative language, sound devices and persuasive techniques.

Techniques included:
Simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, repetition, rhetorical question, hyperbole, juxtaposition, pathetic fallacy, oxymoron, semantic field, emotive language, rule of three, sibilance and onomatopoeia.

This resource works well as a starter activity, revision task, homework or quick assessment and is suitable for GCSE English Language or KS3 students developing analytical skills.

An answer sheet is included.