Paper 2, Section A Language

Question 1

Question 3? Language and Structure?

Answer 1

Para 1 + 2:

• Write a language/Structure point,
• Talk about words (Is it a verb? Adjective?)
• Use writers name,
• Why would the writer use these words?,
• Link to question (Why does this engage reader?),
• Talk about a sentence (Sentence type?).

Para 3:

• Do same but include quotations,
• Talk about punctuation,
• Structure technique,
• Link to question.

Words:
Highlights, shows, amplifies, builds, creates, successfully, demonstrates, explores, introduces, echoes, displays.

Question 2

Question 4 (Paper 1) And Question 6 (Paper 2)? Engage The Reader?

Answer 2

• Opening is successful (evidence),
• Why is this successful?,
• Use evaluative language (purposely, successfully, effectively, convincingly),
• How does the reader feel about the opening?.
• Middle is successful (evidence),
• S.I.T.E? (Setting? Idea? Tone? Events?),
• Explain what writer is doing and why it is successful,
• Reader feels,
• Repeat with ending,
• My opinion,
• What part is the most successful in the extract? (Middle? End? Start?),
• Evidence to support my point,
• What the writer has done to make this most successful,
• EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE!!!,
• What effect this part of the extract has on me.

Question 3

Question 7A? Similarities And Differences?

Answer 3

• “Both texts…”,
• Language/structure point,
• Quote from text 1,
• Quote from text 2.

Repeat 3 times.

Question 4

Question 7B? Compare The Texts?

Answer 4

• Genre,
• Audience (magazine?, book?),
• Purpose (to inform? to entertain?),
• Similar? Different?,
• What person is it in? (give evidence),
• Relationship between reader and writer because of person used,
• Link to question,
• Language point (formal? humour? emotional?),
• Evidence from both texts,
• Tone?,
• How does the reader feel?,
• Technique used? (rhetorical? description?),
• Evidence from both texts,
• How do these techniques engage reader?,
• Link to question (compare),
• Structure of WHOLE text (how it begins and ends),
• Evidence from both texts,
• How does this engage reader?,
• Writers intention,
• What questions might this give the reader?,
• Link to question.