Targets for Language Paper 1 questions

Q2

1. Aim to comment on precise imagery.

2. Identify methods using terminology and explore their effects.
3. Explore the connotations of key words.
4. Ensure comments are perceptive by exploring language in context.
5. Ensure analysis is developed – aim for more than two things.
6. Foreground your analysis with big ideas – implicit concepts.
7. Select more effective evidence to allow for developed analysis.
8. Consider contrasts and patterns in language.

Q3

1. Select the most significant aspects of the plot.

2. Ensure you make comments on why sections are significant in relation to the rest of the story.
3. Make comments on how the different aspects of the story are connected.
4. Use structural terminology.
5. Use quotations to support your points.
6. Manage your time more carefully to ensure completion of this question.
7. Ensure that your analysis is specific, considering the precise implications in terms of the story.

Q4

1. Explore precise imagery created by figurative language.

2. Ensure comments are perceptive by exploring language in context.
3. Support your ideas with a wider range of quotations.
4. Select best examples of descriptive language which enables exploration of imagery or precise
connotations.
5. Address both aspects of the statement.
6. Consider the nuance within the statement to devise an alternative argument.
7. Ensure you analysis is focused on how the methods have been used to support your
interpretation of the statement.
8. Maintain a sharp focus on the statement.

Q5

1. Plan carefully, devising a range of ideas before settling on the most effective one, ensuing a sharp
focus on the task.
2. Ensure that your plan details how your story will start, develop and end. Think of it as an
overview like in Q3!
3. Ensure you have incorporated more descriptive detail to establish the setting.
4. Use abstraction to add complexity to your writing.
5. Use some of the structures we have looked at to craft a more engaging and plausible story.
6. Vary your sentence structures for fluency and effect.
7. Vary punctuation for effect.
8. Use clear and regular paragraphs, time connectives, prepositional phrases and reference chains
to create a more cohesive story.
9. Write in accurate standard English.
10. Ensure that your ideas and writing is subtle, drawing on complex yet believable ideas and
ensuring you do not state details but describe them.
11. Add depth to your writing by considering your character more carefully, such as their interests,
motivations and inner conflicts. This must be realistic.
 Targets for Language Paper 1 questions

12. Avoid overuse of adjective-noun formation and metaphors – this can sometimes be clunky and
can detract from the story.
13. Prioritise crafting a meaningful and impactful ending!