P1 english lang questions

P1 Q2 (10 mins)

• LANGUAGE

• Pick out quotes and write not so obvious techniques they use (two PEEZL)

• Show how all the language techniques work together to prove the point in the question

• Make specific comments about the effects of the writer’s language choices - don’t just name devices used, use DEEP analysis

• No overly lengthy quotes or basic / literal words e.g. ‘fear’

• Don’t mention context

P1 Q3 (10 mins)

• STRUCTURE

• Remember SHIFT HAPPENS (talk about atmosphere at beginning, focus shift in middle and then atmosphere at end)

• 3 paragraphs (beginning, middle, end) or just 2 if no time

• Talk about sentence types: declarative (statement.) interrogative (question?) imperative (command!) and exclamative (exclamation!)

• Always focus on reader effect

P1 Q4 (25 mins)

• Use evaluative adverbs e.g. the writer successfully, cleverly, significantly, effectively, interestingly presents…

• Offer two different interpretations for one statement

• Evaluate two statements (write 1-2 paragraphs on each)

• 3 PEEZL paragraphs with no intro

• CONSTANTLY link your answer to the statement

P1 Q5 (45 mins)

• Use structure ‘DSZFL’

  • Drop reader into setting + weather description

  • Shift the focus (e.g. change the weather to represent a change in mood - pathetic fallacy)

  • Zoom into something significant that triggers a memory

  • Flashback to what came before

  • Link back to your opening - adapt original sentence to be an end one (cyclical structure)

• Make the weather seem like an animal (e.g. the rain prowled across the rooftops, clawing at windows with ice paws)

• Give a heartbeat to the setting (e.g. the city throbbed with neon vines and a pulsing rhythm beneath its skin)

• Describe a sound using the sense of touch or taste (e.g. his laugh was sharp and bitter, like biting into lemon peel)

• Use your five senses throughout the description

• Use language techniques + 6-10 different punctuation marks (; : . ? ! - , () ‘ …)

• Use an extended metaphor

• Always leave 5 mins to add better vocab + punctuation at the end

Structural techniques

FACTS FUNC

• Flashback / Flashforward

• Asyndetic listing (listing without conjunctions)

• Contrast

• Tense

• Sentence / paragraph length

• Foreshadowing

• Use of time (pace, time of day, season)

• Narrator POV (first/second/third person)

• Connection between first + last sentences

Language techniques

AFOREST

• Alliteration

• Facts

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhetorical question / repetition

• Emotive language

• Statistics

• Triplets

CHIMPS JESS

• Caesura (poem - punctuation mid line)

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor / extended

• Personification

• Simile

• Juxtaposition

• Enjambment (poem - sentence runs to next line without punctuation)

• Sibilance

• Semantic field