CIE AS Level English Language

1. A figure of speech in which ideas which contrast or seem to be the opposite of each other are placed in close proximity to achieve a particular effect (4, 2, 8)
4. Pay attention to tone and delivery. If speech is about personal experience draw from stuff about biography. Need to make words rise from the paper as if they were being spoken. Humorous? Serious? Sarcastic? (6)
5. Very personal. To record innermost thoughts, reflections and experiences. Pay attention to content and tone. Do you want to develop character? Trace plot? Show how plot revolves around character(s)? (7)
6. When there is discrepancy between what is literaly said and what is really meant, or a contrast between what the reader expects and what is actually given (4, 2, 5)

2. A figure of speech in which words beginning with the same letter are placed close together to achieve a particular effect (4, 2, 12)
3. Seeking to put a pleasant spin on something unpleasant (4, 2, 1, 9)
4. Pay attention to plot, character, setting, theme & layout. No rambling. Jot down what you want to achieve. Write a small character study of each character. Brief outline of plot. Describe setting (6)
8. Jot down a group of words linked around and evocative of a particular tone, mood or topic (4, 5)
9. Layout: Name of character in capital letters in the margin with a colon. Stage directions showing the way in which the character speaks or helping reader understand plot are written in brackets. Always in the present tense (6)
10. When a writer says that two things are like each other because of at least one similarity between them. They are always structures: as ......as, or like .......... (4, 2, 1, 6)

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