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Simile- compare two words using like or as.

LANGUAGE DEVICES Metaphor- comparing using is or are.

L
Oxymoron- two opposites side by side.

Juxtaposition- compare two ideas in a

Paragraph.

Rhetorical question- when you ask a question in a piece of

writing that don’t require an answer.

Alliteration- words in a row that start with the same letter.

Sibilance- similar to alliteration but only with the S word.

Personification- giving a non human thing a human quality.

Hyperbole- over exaggeration.

Onomatopoeia- words describing a sound

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STRUCTURAL DEVICES

s
Zoom-in- when writer focuses on a particular thing or person.
Zoom-out- when writer changes focus from one thing to the
atmosphere.
Dialogue- talking/speech.
Cyclical- starting and ending in a similar way.
Flashbacks- going back in time.
Foreshadowing- clue of what’s going to happen in the future.

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PETER PARAGRAPHS

P
PETER paragraphs consist of 3-4 paragraphs that include a:

P-point
E- evidence (QUOTE)
T- technique (LANGUAGE DEVICE)
E- explanation ( FURTHER EXPLANATION)
R- reader ( EFFECTS ON READER)

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LANGUAGE PAPER 1 Q1

Paper 1 consist of a list of 4 things about a certain topic from a part of a text (you can write in
your own words or use a direct quotation) and is worth 4 marks
Q: List four things we learn about Caesar Flickerman.
Caesar Flickerman, the man who has hosted the interviews for more than forty years, bounces onto the stage. It’s a little scary because his appearance has been virtually
unchanged during all that time. Same face under a coating of pure white makeup. Same hairstyle that he dyes a different colour for each Hunger Games. Same ceremonial
suit, midnight blue dotted with a thousand tiny electric bulbs that twinkle like stars.
Answers could include:
He has hosted the interviews for more than 40 years
He bounces onto the stage
His appearance has been unchanged for over 40 years
He wears white makeup
He dyes his hair
He wears a ceremonial suit
His suit is midnight blue

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LANGUAGE PAPER Q2
Language paper Q2 consists of 3-4 peter paragraphs explaining and commenting on and analyzing how writers
use language devices to achieve affects on the reader using relevant subject terminology to support their view and
it is worth 8 marks.

Question 2: How does the writer use language here to describe Rosabell's bus journey home? (8 marks)

The writer uses different language to describe the crowded bus on the commute and the unpleasant atmosphere. As the light
strikes on the windows of the jewellery shops, Rosabell sees these shops become ‘fairy palaces’. The use of the metaphor ‘fairy
palaces’ suggests how she views it to be so magical and out of her reach only due to her lower class. In addition, The row of other
commuters in the bus are described to ‘resolve into one meaningless, staring face’. This suggests how collectively, the lower class
as commuters all symbolically blend into one and lose their individual personalities.
The atmosphere in the bus is also described to be overcrowded, with a ‘sickening smell of warm humanity’. The use of sibilance
draws attention to the sharpness and stench of the smell in the bus. Furthermore, the ‘sickening smell’ represents the average
lower-class worker, who has to perform extensive physical labour every day to earn a living, which is why there is always such an
overwhelming stench in the commute. The bad conditions of labour for the lower class can also be evidenced through Rosabell's
boots. Her boots are described to be ‘coated with black, greasy mud’. This suggests how Rosabell had to often walk a long way in
bad conditions just to travel to and from work, which was very much different from the upper class who was always able to be
clean.
GRADE: 6/8
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Language paper 1 Q3 also consists of 3-4 peter paragraphs explaining and commenting on and analyzing how the
writers use structural devices to achieve affects on the reader using relevant subject terminology to support their
view, it is also worth 8 marks.

Q3: How is the text structured to interest you as a reader?

Example response: only one of the two paragraphs.

The text focuses on a character called Alex Cold and the reader gets to see him from two different angles. At the beginning he is alone in his bedroom and
waking up from a nightmare where his mother was carried off by an enormous blackbird. Then in the second half of the text the writer changes the focus to
Alex being with the rest of his family downstairs at breakfast time. He is snappy with his sisters when one of them says, ‘momma’s going to die’. This links
the two halves of the text together because the fear Alex experienced in the earlier nightmare is now manifested in his behavior (displayed or shown) at the
breakfast table. Shouting at his sister makes it seem as if he disagrees with her but because the reader has already had an insight into Alex’s subconscious
(hidden) mind we understand this point is really the opposite and that Alex secretly fears that what his sister is saying about his mother dying is true.

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LANGUAGE PAPER 1 Q4

Language paper 1 Q4 consist of 4-5 well structured chunky peter paragraphs that focus on a certain part of a source given with a
statement from that source and you have to either agree/disagree or both (which rarely happens) with that statement, it is worth 20
marks.

If it says to what extent do you agree? You have to completely agree even if you don’t.
If it says to what extent do you disagree? You have to completely disagree.
If it says to what extent do you agree/disagree then you have your own opinion.
Also in these peter paragraphs you can have a combination of structural and language devices.
Best advised not to use the same language or structural device more that once for each paragraph.

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