• Lexis: connotations/semantic field • Grammar: word class/syntax • Figurative Language: imagery/personification • Manner: tone/mood/register • Form: narrative structure and viewpoint/dramatic techniques • Rhetoric: devices/patterning/phonology
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Styles for B Question
• First Person narrative point of view • Conversation within third person • Letter • Sustained diary entry/journal/autobiography extract • Playscript • Speech (only appropriate for some texts
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Text in 'B' question depends upon (1)
• Knowledge of text – plot, character, theme. • Knowledge of different genres/forms • Appreciation of features of the author’s style
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Text in 'B' question depends upon (2)
• Ability to use appropriate ‘voice’ (the examiner stated that pupils have struggled with this one so make sure you can successfully emulate the style of the author) • Controlled expression • Technical accuracy
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What to consider with B questions:
• What are the character’s attitudes? • What aspects of the character’s language should be included? • What are the features of the given genre?
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Styles for B Question
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• First Person narrative point of view • Conversation within third person • Letter • Sustained diary entry/journal/autobiography extract • Playscript • Speech (only appropriate for some texts
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