English revison

Question and marks

Question2: How dose the writer use language to? (Worth 8 marks)

Question 3: How has the writer structured the text to interest the reader? (Worth 8 marks)

Question 1: Find 4 things (worth 4 marks

To what extent do you agree? (worth 20 marks)

Question 2: ONLY focus on language analysis not anything else. Try and find a long quote because you can write a lot and get full 8 marks

Question 3: ONLY focus on structural techniques and try and find something you can write lots about

Question 4: Start off by agreeing with the statement then later write an argument to counter the quote if you do not thing it is right. Agreeing with the quote makes the question a lot easier as you know what to do.

Structural devices

Sentence types

Rhetorical question

Beginning, middle, end

Punctuation

Triplet

Change of focus

Order of paragraphs

How the extract starts

Point of view

Flashback

Use of speech

Cyclical

narrative types

Non-linear

Language devices

Emotive language

Repetition

Hyperbole

Simile

Personification

Onomatepia

Metaphor

Verb, adjective, noun

Alliteration

Superlatives

Anecdote

Sibilance

Rhetorical question

Triplet

PMEZL

P: point and quote

M: method

E: effect

Z: zoom in

L: link back to question

Sentence types and forms

Declarative sentence

Interrogative sentence

Complex sentence

Compound sentence

Imperative sentence

Simple sentence

Exclamatory sentence

Minor sentence