Q3 - language features
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- Created on: 02-06-14 13:47
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- Question 3 - Language features
- Don't state out the obvious, dig deep to find a new meaning
- read between the lines
- Aim to spend 13 minutes
- Worth 8 marks
- Always link back to the question
- Language features
- Alliteration
- Makes the sound echo any part of the subject
- Statement/ command
- Provokes a response from the reader, changes tone, makes it more persuasive
- Repetiton
- To emphasise an image or key idea
- Metaphor and simile
- Creates a vivid picture, comparison emphasises a particular quality
- Emotive Vocab
- Makes the topic overly good or bad, depending on the purpose
- Adjective and adverb
- Adds descriptive detail which helps the reader to visualise what is being said
- Dialogue
- Personifies text. Brings it to life by adding human voices
- Rhetorical question
- engages the reader being addressed directly, the text is relevant to them
- Direct address
- Involves the reader and gets them to emphasise with the writer
- Simple and complex sentences
- Implies clarity and certainty, develops detail
- Formal/informal vocab
- Adds authority to a text which makes it more convincing
- Pun
- Wordplay- makes the text more memorable or quirky, creates a humorous tone
- Fact
- Makes the text seem accurate and more believable
- Opinion
- Sways the reader towards the writer's viewpoint
- Alliteration
- Don't state out the obvious, dig deep to find a new meaning
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