paper 1 questions

Q5: What is a narration vs a description?

• Narration: variety of perspectives, tells a story with a plot, characters and setting

• Description: adds details to help you visualise something - no story told, third person used

Q5: What are some descriptive writing structures?

See google classroom!!

Q5: Story / narrative writing

• Minimum of 2-3 characters

• Set your story in 1-2 locations

• Little dialogue + only when necessary

What do you get marks for in Q5?

• Varied punctuation

• Sophisticated vocabulary

• A clear structure - beginning + end (e.g. cyclical)

• Paragraphs (include at least 1 one-line paragraph

• A range of language devices

Q3: Structural devices to look for

IN EVERY EXTRACT:

• Shift of focus

• Beginning, middle, end

OTHER:

• Flashback / flashforward / cliffhangers

• Tense / tense change

• Foreshadowing

• Foregrounding - focusing on one character / element

• Zoom out - normally used to talk about setting

• Dialogue

• New setting - could create new mood / mark a point in the story

• Change in tone

• Sentence structures - simple, compound and complex

• Cyclical structure

• Pace - e.g. slow pace builds tension / boredom, quicker pace may suit a piece about things happening quickly

• Repetition

• Listing

• Contrast

Q2: Language techniques to look for

• Pathetic fallacy

• Personification

• Paradox

• Metaphor / simile

• Emotive language / imagery

• Semantic field

• Imperative verbs

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Olfactory / gustatory imagery

• Assonance

• Allusion / symbolism

• Rule of three

• Anthropomorphism

• Sibilance

• Rhetorical questions

• Juxtaposition

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Synaesthesia

• Irony

• Semantic sasiation (the repetition of a word causes it to lose meaning)

Q2: How to answer

• Find 4 pieces of evidence with language technique + give them one word (e.g. “golden books” = valuable)

• Spend 12 minutes on the question

• Write one paragraph per evidence: PEE / EPE (Evidence Point Explain)

Q4: How to answer

• Agree / disagree / partially agree with the statement

• 20 marks

• 20-25 minutes

• aim to write 4 paragraphs, one for each quote