Edexcel GCSE English Language AO2: analysing language and structure overview quiz quiz

Locating and copying out explicit information and clear facts stated directly in the text

Comparing two texts

Writing accurately

Analysing how writers use language and structure to achieve effects, using terminology

Question 3

Question 1

Question 4

Question 5

A short quotation, a plain summary of what it says, and your personal opinion of it

A short quotation, the named method with terminology, and the effect on the reader

Three techniques listed

Introduction, development, conclusion

Full marks, as long as the language analysis is detailed enough

Level 3

The top of Level 1 (2 out of 6)

Zero

A metaphor

An emotive adjective chosen to provoke a strong feeling in the reader

Sibilance

The order in which the writer reveals information

Feature-spotting: naming techniques without explaining their effect

Writing far too little and never managing to finish the answer in the time

Using too few quotations

Comparing texts

The exact dictionary definition of the word and nothing beyond that literal sense

The associations and overtones a word carries beyond its literal meaning

The length of a sentence

The number of syllables

It is worth fewer marks and is set on a much shorter section of given lines

It only tests language

It covers the whole text and is worth 15 marks, not 6 on given lines

It compares two texts

It completely replaces the need to explain any effect the writer's choices have

It guarantees full marks entirely on its own, no matter what else the answer does or says

It is banned in the higher levels

It supports analysis by naming methods precisely, but only when joined to the effect

It creates impact or shock by contrast

It slows the pace of the text right down and makes the reader linger over it

It is always an error

It signals the end of the text

Only the very middle section of the text, where most of the action takes place

The opening and the ending of the whole text

Only the longest sentence

Only the dialogue

Guess any term that sounds suitably technical and hope the examiner does not notice

Leave the point out entirely

Describe the method plainly and explain its effect

Use the wrong term confidently