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Comparing texts (Paper 2 Question 7b)
Quick questions on Comparing writers' methods: how perspectives are conveyed - Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2
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how does each writer make the reader feel that admiration or weariness?Show answer
One writer's exuberant, sensory language and exclamatives convey delight; another's flat, factual tone and short sentences convey detachment or exhaustion. Comparing these methods is what reaches the higher levels.
What are two separate analyses?Show answer
Analysing Text 1's methods then Text 2's, with no link, is not comparison; compare the methods directly within each point.
What is unbalanced method work?Show answer
Analysing one text's methods in depth and barely touching the other's caps the answer; compare both roughly equally.
What is q1?Show answer
What does it mean to compare writers' "methods" in Question 7b? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why is analysing Text 1's techniques in one paragraph and Text 2's in the next not a strong comparison? [1 mark]
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