English fifth year summer exam - techniques and comprehension stuff

How would I go about answering a question when asked about elements of style ?

• relevant statement answering question

• US statements - who / what does it benefit

• clarify - evidence

• context - reiterate point

setting in a narrative:

• combines a narrative’s need for setting with careful description to create an evocative sense of place in the reader’s mind

• help us picture the room in question + the significance of this place for the character and thus plot

• This imagery makes the scene more immersive and thus effective in fascinating the reader.

• invested and entertained in the world

Why use tension

• engaged and wanting to venture further

• creates a sense of threat and risk

• want to see the characters overcome the issue

• know more about what happens

• keeps reader riveted and interested

third person helps us

jump between thoughts of characters effectively

grasp characters equally without making us inadvertedly side with one character

omniscience makes us more aware of the narrative forces at play - THUS MORE ENTERTAINED

first person

• gives us insight into the main characters thoughts

• easier to identify with and feel for character

• more effectively engaged with the stor

• very successfully makes - imminent and real for us

• emotional journey is engrained into the very narration

how do we know a story is told in the first person

• “This is immediately apparent as the text opens with a clear statement of the personal pronoun”

how does an author use characterisation

• revealing characters/community through actions so we are shown rather than told personality

author using actions rather than words means

• by describing characters with actions

• gives us characters we can

• recognize, empathize and identify with

• thus making us more entertained and intrigued by unfolding antics

what does the inclusion of sensory details mean to us readers

• allows us to draw on our own experiences

• envisage the scene as a real embodied person within it would

• makes the scene more immersive and enthralling

  • makes scenes concrete and graspable

rhetorical language

• in posing the question, he is persuading us that this is a key problem

• is combined with the well thought out solution, readers are attracted to his way of thinking and find his solution quite convincing

• listener reaches a conclusion that they feel ownership of and thus they are more investigated in the piece

• contrast

• resourceful method of persuading readers that the issue is very real

• power negative connotations and thus listen more intently to the argument

inclusive language

• reader feels involved in the issues concerned

• By making this an issue that is not abstractly for others but concerns us, we are subtly guided to finding ourselves invested in his conclusions.

• makes the climax of the piece more powerful and convincing as I feel more persuaded to see this as something that affects me, as well as others