3125 02 2RP AFP tcm142 665772 PDF

English
Stage 5
Paper 2 Fiction 2023
1 hour
Additional materials: Insert
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 1–13.
1 Give one word from the first paragraph (lines 3–6) that tells us the narrator has
difficulty moving about.
[1]
2 (a) What word does the pronoun them (line 7) replace?
[1]
(b) What does the word Gloriously (line 8) tell us about how the narrator feels
about mermaids?
[1]
3 How is the third paragraph different from the first and second paragraphs?
Tick () two boxes.
It is written in the third person.
It orders events chronologically.
It describes a time before the present.
It gives background information.
It introduces a new narrator.
[2]
4 The fourth paragraph (lines 17–20) begins with direct speech.

What effect does this have on the reader?
[1]
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5 Look at lines 21–27.
(a) The first mermaid to speak calls the narrator a landling (line 21).
What does the name mean?
[1]
(b) When the second mermaid speaks, what is she doing?

Tick () one box.
inviting the narrator
warning the narrator
instructing the narrator
teasing the narrator
[1]
(c) Give one word that means a container.
[1]

Why does the narrator think of the turquoise-haired mermaid as the leader?
[1]

Explain what the writer’s use of the word burned tells us about the narrator’s face
and her feelings.
[2]
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The writer tells us what the mermaids say, but not who says it. Why doesn’t the
writer tell us who the individual speakers are?
[1]

What two literary techniques does the writer use?
Tick () two boxes.
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
rhyme
simile
[2]
10 How does the description of the setting in the final paragraph link back to the
beginning?
[1]
11 Look at the whole text. This is a piece of fantasy writing.

Give one feature of fantasy writing that is found in the text.
[1]
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12 When the mermaids first see the narrator, we are told that the mermaids’ bodies
are taut with aggression (line 20). Why do you think the mermaids are so
unfriendly?
Give two reasons. Support each reason with a quotation.
First reason:
Quotation:
Second reason:
Quotation:
[4]
13 Eventually the mermaids agree to help the narrator.

Why do you think the mermaids do this?
Give two reasons. Support each reason with a quotation.
First reason:
Quotation:
Second reason:
Quotation:
[4]
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Section B: Writing
Spend 30 minutes on this section.
14 Write the beginning of the story that the narrator tells the mermaids.
This story needs to:
• be about the mermaids

• show the mermaids as the heroes of the story
• describe at least one event.
Space for your plan:
Write your story on the next page. [25 marks]
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Paper 2 Fiction 2023

Additional materials: Insert

Spend 30 minutes on this section.

Read the Text in the insert, and answer questions 1–13.

2 (a) What word does the pronoun them (line 7) replace?

It is written in the third person.

It orders events chronologically.

It describes a time before the present.

It gives background information.

It introduces a new narrator.

4 The fourth paragraph (lines 17–20) begins with direct speech.

5 Look at lines 21–27.

(b) When the second mermaid speaks, what is she doing?

inviting the narrator

warning the narrator

instructing the narrator

teasing the narrator

(c) Give one word that means a container.

6 Look at lines 28–30.

7 Look at lines 33–34.

8 Look at lines 35–39.

9 Look at lines 38–46.

11 Look at the whole text. This is a piece of fantasy writing.

13 Eventually the mermaids agree to help the narrator.

Spend 30 minutes on this section.

This story needs to:

• be about the mermaids

Space for your plan:

Write your story on the next page. [25 marks]

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