AQA English Language GCSE Revision Recap
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- English Language AQA GCSE
- Paper 2
- DAFORESTER
- Direct address
- Alliteration
- Facts
- Opinions
- Repetition
- Emotive language
- Exaggeration
- Statistisctics
- Triplet (Rule of Three)
- Rhetorical Questions
- Writing to...
- Argue
- present both sides and come to conclusion
- Inform
- give facts to the reader so they get the information they need
- Explain
- break down the topic to help them understand it better
- Persuade
- give one clear idea and try to convince the reader
- Advise
- offer help and support through instructions
- Argue
- Types of writing
- Article
- if it is newspaper it is informative, if it is columnn then has some personality
- Essay
- Leaflet
- persuade or advise readers
- Letter
- make sure to write a full address, sign clearly to show it is a letter
- Speech
- address audience, persuade or argue a point
- Review
- they can entertain, advise or inform the audience depending on the topic
- Travel writing
- inform (guides), entertain (magazines) and often persuade (adverts)
- Article
- DAFORESTER
- Paper 1
- Section B Advice
- paragraph
- narrative pieces follow a storyline
- descriptive pieces use sensory detail (what is seen, heard, touched etc)
- Techniques
- sibilance
- repetitive 's' sound
- onomatopoeia
- word imitates sound e.g bang
- alliteration
- repetitive first letter of word
- assonance
- repeat the same vowel sound
- personification
- giving an object personal character
- metaphor
- saying something is something else
- simile
- she was AS cold AS ice
- she was LIKE a lion
- repetition
- sibilance
- Section A Advice
- identify when the writer uses the techniques described
- don't worry about your ideas being too abstract - it is your interpretation too
- select short quotes and integrate them into your answer
- do not just label techniques, explain why they're used and what effect they have
- Section B Advice
- Paper 2
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