Paper 1 terminology

Hook

The starting sentence to your paper should hook in the reader, stating something interesting about the topic of the analysis.

formal information

After your hook identify the text type, author, year, audience and any other formal information that will support the further analysis.

Thesis

A statement guiding your reader in the direction of your analysis containing information of the guiding question as well as rich ideas.

PEEL

Point, Example, Evidence, Link

Topic sentence

states the point of the analysis, guiding the reader about the point of the individual paragraph.

Example

the example refers to precise textual references.

Authorial choices

literary choices made by an author such as the choice of a specific device, style or tone to convey a specific idea to their audience focussing specifically on how these shape meaning

Link

A strong draw back on the original guiding question and your thesis statement, showing analysis linked to your prompt bringing you closer to a conclusion.

Allegory

A story that represents a general message about life

Alliteration

Consecutive words that all or almost all start with the same sound

Allusion

a inderect reference to a figure, place, event or idea outside the text

Anaphora

A word or phrase that is repeated at the beginning of sentences throughout a piece of writing

Personification

A non-human thing such as a place, animal or object behaves in a human-like way.

Asyndeton

Leaving out conjugations such as ‘and’, ‘or’ or ‘but’.

Colloquialism

Use of informal language or slang

Epigraph

a famous quotation, poem, song or another short text is inserted at the beginning of the authors larger text

Epistrophe

a word or phrase is repeated at the end of sentences throughout a text.

Punctuation

Use of symbols such as full stops, exclamation marks and semicolons can be played with by an author to shape meaning

Hyperbole

An exaggerated statement not meant in a literal sense

Imagery

A scene, thing, or idea is describes in a way that it appeals to our senses. There are 5 types of imagery, visual (sight), auditory (hearing), gustatory (taste), olfactory (smell), tactile (touch).

Irony

When a statement is used to express the opposite meaning than the one expressed by it.

Verbal irony

someone says something but means the opposite

Situational irony

something happens that’s the opposite of what is expected to happen

Juxtaposition

the comparing and contrasting of two completely different (usually opposite) ideas, characters or objects.

Malapropism

An incorrect word is used in place of a word with a similar sound

Metaphor

Ideas, actions or objects that are described in non-literal terms

Similee

Ideas, actions or objects that are compared to something in a non-literal manner

Metonym

A related word or phrase is substituted for the actual thing

Mood

The general feeling that the writer wants the audience to have when reading the text

Onomatopoeia

when a word represents a sound which it resembles or imitates

Oxymoron

Two words are placed together that express a contradictory meaning

repetition

when a word or phrase is written multiple times

Satire

a genre of writing criticising of a person, behaviour, belief, government or society, often employing hyperbole, irony and humour.

Symbolism

Use of an object, a figure, event, situation or another element to represent something else or a broader theme.

Tone

the writers or narrators attitude towards a subject

Colour

a visual device used in pictures to shape meaning

Composition

elements like where an object is placed, how it is framed, and how different objects work together to shape meaning

Framing

borders or rims often found in comics or posters placed around an image

Ambiguity

something which has a double meaning

Motion lines

lines used in images such as comics to depict motion or movement

perspective

the angle at which the viewer perceives something in a visual image

scope

the lens through which an author creates their text

panel

a box in a comic that depicts a seperate image

text box

a square box that usually narrates an event within a comic