Text Analysis :

Using Evidence
and Quotations
CAMBRIDGE AS LEVEL

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BY: AGUS AHMADI IRVAN
LESSON OBJECTIVES
 Learn how to analyse specific language features
and explain their effects.
 Quote effectively and selectively.
Point/Quotation/Comment

An approach of selecting words and phrase to

comment and explain their effects.
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Sample Response
(Examples of point/quotation/comment are highlighted in the first paragraph)
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The passage below describes the writer’s experience in Burma when he was serving
as a police officer at a time when the British ruled the country. He has been ordered
to deal with a possible threat posed by an elephant.

(a) Comment on the style and language of the passage.

Time to Practice 1

Read the unannotated remainder of

the response and identify:
 all the other examples of the
point/quotation/comment approach
 any examples where the writer (of the
commentary) has used linking or contrasting
words or phrases to emphasise or develop points.
Time to Practice 2
Now look at these notes
 Copy and complete the table adding a comment or effect to the last
two points.
 Then, take any of the last three points and turn them into a longer
sentence, like this (the sections from the table are highlighted):

The second paragraph introduces a more definite tone in the use of the
phrase ‘perfectly clear’, implying he has moved on from a sense of doubt.
Possible Answers

 The apparent certainty in the repeated phrase, ‘I ought’ …

 Yet, immediately a sudden change of tack and the writer’s
mood is indicated by …
 Th e vivid simile to explain his dilemma in which he
compares his chances to those of a ‘…’
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